February 27th is Election Day – Vote ON Food & Farming!
Posted: February 25, 2025
Categories: GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Ontario
Ontario votes on February 27, 2025
Vote for food as a priority!
#VoteONFood
We encourage each of you who is eligible:
Head to the polls. Bring people with you. Make your voice heard.
To find details about your voting location, be sure to visit the Elections Ontario website: https://www.elections.on.ca/
Please check out our Vote ON Food 2025 page (ici en français) for details on our food system policy priorities (copied below), which have come together with input from over 90 organizations across Ontario and Indigenous Territories.
- Strengthen Ontario’s food resources so we can Buy Local!
- Support New Entrants in farming, fishing and harvesting, and Protect Foodland
- Reduce poverty, improve working conditions and ensure affordable housing to increase food security
- Prioritize Indigenous Food Sovereignty
- Invest in Community-based School Food and Education Programs
- Ensure Communities can Grow and Harvest our Own Food
- Shift Wasted Food to become an Asset for Ontario
Sustain’s networks and working groups will continue to work together over the next 4 years to implement these collectively-developed policies regardless of who is elected.
To join this effort, email networks@sustainontario.com.