SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Medical Prescription, Food Bank, Food Sovereignty

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

Document Summary

Chapter 15 food insecurity & food sovereignty poverty they provide drop-in meals. Stop community food centre it confronts the underlying issues that lead to. Hunger political way of talking about food and security. Inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints: 2012 food insecurity increased, household food insecurity is a major problem in canada. In march 2012, almost 800,000 relied on local food banks or an emergency food program and 4 million affected by hunger. They put off medical prescription for sake of food, they borrow money to buy food from relatives, purchase food on credit, terminate telephone, cable, internet, steal foods. )t"s a racialized and gendered issue recent immigrants, racialized workers. Jessie golum supports ubi (cid:498)to be at best(cid:499) to contribute in the society: to introduce policies that ensure a living income for all, welfare payments, disability payments and minimum wage should be raised money on goods.