“Food policy for Canada”
Posted: March 10, 2010
Categories: News from Sustain Ontario / Ontario Food Policy
GRANT ROBERTSON, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY OBSERVERÂ March 9/10
It is funny how things change sometimes.
I was reminded of this recently when I received a glossy promotional magazine in my mail for one of Ontario’s farm organizations that discussed amongst other things a national food policy like they had invented the idea.
A few years ago I was at a government consultation meeting around the future of agriculture. I was there representing the National Farmers Union and the thousands of farmers across Canada who have been talking and working on promoting the need for a national food policy and agricultural policies that actually focus on the needs and importance of family farmers. During the meeting I brought up the idea of a national food policy.
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