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Gisèle Yasmeen and Anna Paskal

Gisèle Yasmeen is executive director and Anna Paskal is a senior policy adviser at Food Secure Canada. 

Eat, think, vote: making food a key election issue 

A key message to get across to our candidates is that our current food system is broken, and in urgent need of transformation. It is unacceptable that in a country as wealthy as Canada, one in six children live with regular food insecurity, and one in eight households struggle regularly to put food on the table, write Gisèle Yasmeen and Anna Paskal. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
A key message to get across to our candidates is that our current food system is broken, and in urgent need of transformation. It is unacceptable that in a country as wealthy as Canada, one in six children live with regular food insecurity, and one in eight households struggle regularly to put food on the table, write Gisèle Yasmeen and Anna Paskal. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
A key message to get across to our candidates is that our current food system is broken, and in urgent need of transformation. It is unacceptable that in a country as wealthy as Canada, one in six children live with regular food insecurity, and one in eight households struggle regularly to put food on the table, write Gisèle Yasmeen and Anna Paskal. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
A key message to get across to our candidates is that our current food system is broken, and in urgent need of transformation. It is unacceptable that in a country as wealthy as Canada, one in six children live with regular food insecurity, and one in eight households struggle regularly to put food on the table, write Gisèle Yasmeen and Anna Paskal. Photograph courtesy of Pexels