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Learn Two- Lack of Employment equals lack of Food Security

I am from a city in Ontario, Canada that has the highest unemployment rate in the country. They built this city around the big Auto Makers in Detroit. It was cheaper to make product in Canada and ship it across the boarder to the big plants, then to make it on american soil because our Dollar was worth very little in comparison to the American Dollar. Then..... The stock market crashed.

Our Dollar went up, 2 of the big 3 American auto makers filed for some sort of bankruptcy and people started not buying cars... this led to no parts being needed... this lead to layoffs and peoples overall sense of security going down hill. Food Security has been hit the hardest as those that had plenty now are adjusting to eating from places like local food banks. Food Banks in Windsor, Ontario are seeing double digit increases in the amount of need for their services. The catch, the big companies that donated to them so they could buy food are no longer donating, hitting them, on both sides of the scoresheet.

As it stands, the biggest problem effecting our population here in my town is unemployment, equaling a Food Security shortage. Now....... On to how we fix it.

Dan

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Comment by Claire Moylan on March 11, 2010 at 12:56am
Hi Dan,

Even if you got a small home garden growing, food production for distressed areas like these on a limited summer schedule would be hard to feed. You might have to go back to what natives ate before we had things shipped in from sources that are locally plentiful. For instance, while acorns are not a staple anymore, they used to be for Indians. You have to boil them to get the tannic acid out of them, but they make for foraging food. Oranges wouldn't grow in Canada so you'd have to replace your vitamin C from a different source, like pine needle tea. The problem is not that there aren't other options, it's that we're accustomed to being spoiled with our food diets. Who wants to eat acorns and drink pine needle tea when we got macadamia nuts from Hawaii, Coffee from peru, and oranges from Florida? Obviously, without the cash, some sacrifices have to be made and some modifications to the diet undertaken.

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