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Hardeman Says We Need To Educate People About Food

Wednesday, 1 May 2013 at 11:22

The Progressive Conservatives want you to know more about food. Earlier this week the party announced they were putting forward an amendment to add food literacy into the Local Food Act which would require food education to become a mandatory component of the curriculum for school children. Local MPP Ernie Hardeman says through public consultations it became clear the lack of food knowledge people had was a problem. "We needed to do more to educate people about food, the qualities and the things that you needed to be watching for and a healthy diet and so forth and as this bill was introduced without that again, we decided that maybe we should look at proposing an amendment to put in there to deal with it." Hardeman says the Conservatives had to request the amendment before it went to committee. "To amend the education act to put it in the curriculum, it requires unanimous consent from all three parties to allow us to open another act that the bill presently doesn't open. With that agreement we can then move forward and have it added to the local food act." A recent study by Farmers Feed Cities found that only 41 percent of 18-34 year olds knew where their food comes from.

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