Food banks across Canada continue to face soaring need this Thanksgiving, with one executive warning that things could quickly get worse.
Amid inflation, increasing food and housing costs, and precarious employment situations, the country's food banks have watched the need for their goods balloon as the organizations enter what, for many, is a critical time of year for fundraising.
"And you put all of those things together and suddenly you can understand why people are turning to food banks." According to data from Food Banks Canada, the percentage of seniors accessing food banks has increased to 8.9 per cent in 2022 from 6.8 per cent in 2019 and that about one third of food bank users were children.
"We focus a lot on recovering large industrial donations of food where, say, the avocados were a few centimetres too small and they were rejected because aesthetically they didn't look right, or the bread was in the oven for 20 seconds too long, or something like that," she said.
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