BILL 216

FOOD LITERACY FOR STUDENTS ACT 2020

The KFLA Food Policy Council initiated the first draft of Bill 216 which has now been put forward by MPP Daryl Kramp (Hastings-Lennox and Addington). The first reading of the bill was on October 19, 2020 and the second reading was on October 20, 2020. The private member's bill was carried and now will go to a Standing Committee for review prior to the 3rd reading. We are very excited to see this work move forward. A big thank you to MPP Daryl Kramp and his staff for their support and advocacy on this issue. The bill aims to ensure that food literacy and skills education is embedded in the school curriculum throughout Grades 1 to 12.

Endorsing organizations include:

· Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa)

· Beaver Valley Outreach

· Brescia University College

· Canadian Cancer Society

· Canadian Environmental Law Association

· Center for Health Science and Law (CHSL)

· Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario (CFFO)

· Community Food Centres Canada

· Elgin St. Thomas Food for All Committee

· Ecosource

· Future of Food and Farming Working Group (Peterborough)

· FoodShare Toronto

· Frontenac County Council

· Greater Sudbury Food Policy Council

· Green Thumbs Growing Kids

· Growing Chefs! BC

· Growing Chefs! Ontario

· Growing Up Organic

· Hastings Prince Edward Health

· Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance

· Heart and Stroke Foundation

· Indigenous Diabetes Health Circle

· Indigenous Primary Health Care Circle (IPHCC)

· International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE)

· Just Food Ottawa

· KFL&A Public Health Unit

· Kids Growing City

· Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC)

· Kingston Community Gardens Network

· London Environmental Network

· London Food Coalition

· Middlesex-London Food Policy Council

· National Farmers Union

· National Farmers Union - Ontario

· National Farmers Union - Local 316

· Nature Harmony Foundation

· Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM)

· Ontario Community School Alliance Board

· Ontario Dietitians in Public Health

· Ontario Family Studies Home Economics Educators Association

· Ontario Federation of Agriculture

· Ontario Home Economics Association (OHEA)

· Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA)

· Ontario Public Health Association

· Ottawa Food Policy Council

· Pathways to Education - Kingston

· Peel Food Action Council

· Penage Road Women's Institute

· Peterborough Public Health

· Rainbow Plate

· Rad Kids

· Roots to Harvest

· Southwestern Public Health

· Sudbury Shared Harvest

· Sustain Ontario

· The JPIC Office of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul

· The Meeting Place, Tobermory

· The Table Food Community Centre

· Timiskaming Health Unit

· United Way City of Kawartha Lakes

· Vertigrow

· Water Women's Institute

· West Elgin Community Health Centre

· Windsor Essex Food Policy Council

Please click on the link below to add your name to our growing list of individual supporters. Please email us at foodpolicykfla@gmail.com if your organization would be interested in supporting this campaign. Thank you!

Media: Whig Standard article, Nov. 11th 2020

CBC Ontario Morning interview (starting at 31:41), Nov. 16th 2020

CFRC radio interview (starting at 1:41), Dec. 11, 2020

CFFO commentary January 15, 2021

Brescia University College media release, Feb. 2021

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Post-Animal Agriculture and the Future of Farming

Thursday, April 29th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific

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The year 2020, the year of the pandemic, has seen the expansion of the plant-based protein market and the culture meat industry with massive investments in several start-ups and the first regulatory approval by Singapore of EatJust’s cultured chicken produced via Cellular Agriculture. The alternative protein market includes plant-based analogs such as meat using a variety of plants such as soy, pea and wheat. Companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are now available on supermarket shelves across Canada and the US. Cellular Agriculture includes two types of production systems: fermentation techniques to produce honey, egg whites and milk as well as animal cell culture techniques to grow animal tissues outside the animal for producing meat, seafood, leather and fur. Cultured meat products are not yet commercialized. What does the expansion of animal replacement products imply for Canadian farmers? Are the Prairies poised to become the world’s “protein basket”?

Elisabeth Abergel is a professor in the Sociology Department and at the Institute of Environmental Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Trained as a molecular biologist, her research focuses on the relationship between technoscientific innovation in the life sciences, knowledge and power as they relate to food and agriculture. She is interested in the social dimensions of science and technology and how technologies embed particular values about rural worlds and the future of farming. She is currently writing a book entitled: “Dead Meat: Competing Vitalities, Cultured Meat Imaginaries and the Anthropocene”.

Campaigns to Support

Just Recovery Movement

Learn about the Just Recovery Movement which endorse 6 principles for post Covid 19 investment that will prioritize communities and ecosystems.

https://justrecoveryforall.ca/

Food Secure Canada Food Action Plan

Food Secure Canada is endorsing a food action plan in the context of Covid 19 that will promote resilience and equity in our food system. Read more about it on their website and spread the word by sending a letter to your MP.

https://foodsecurecanada.org/2020-growing-resilience-equity#share

About Us

We are an independent body consisting of a diverse group of members who live or work in KFL&A area. The Council’s mandate is to work towards the KFL&A Food Charter’s purpose of creating a secure and sustainable food system for our region.