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Canada's Food Guide has been promoting healthy and balanced eating amongst Canadians since 1942. It is included in school curriculums, doctors have physical copies in their offices, and yet despite its large popularity CFG's dark history is still widely unacknowledged.

The dietary recommendations we have today evolved from non-consensual experiments conducted on starved Indigenous children in Canada's Residential Schools. Children were intentionally starved for up to 2 years prior to any testing to create a "baseline" for any studies. Extreme malnourishment was a widespread problem with children being fed less than half (to as low as a third) of their daily recommended calories. Oftentimes food was contaminated, smelling, and spoiled. The poor physical conditions and stunted growth of these Residential School children made them a perfect target for the Canadian Government's experiments. "It's really difficult to do those kinds of experiments because you need hungry people," said Mosby (A Historian speaking on the history of CFG)

The long-lasting effects of extreme malnourishment are still evident to this day amongst Canada's Indigenous communities. With all their generational and cultural skills like cooking stripped from them, Indigenous children often grew into adults who lacked the knowledge to feed themselves and their offspring properly. The physical side-effects of starvation, such as adulthood obesity and type 2 diabetes, are far greater for up to 3 generations following the Survivor.

Canada's Food Guide would not be what it is today if it weren't for the thousands of innocent Indigenous children who suffered at the expense of our Government. Nearly every Canadian citizen has learned about Canada's Food Guide, but how many know about the atrocities that formed it?

Not enough.

SOURCES:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/how-food-in-canada-is-tied-to-land-language-community-and-colonization-1.5989764/the-dark-history-of-canada-s-food-guide-how-experiments-on-indigenous-children-shaped-nutrition-policy-1.5989785

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555756/

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As a #1 tourist attraction with over 8 million annual visitors, one can expect some seriously delicious and diverse food and beverage options at the various locally-owned businesses residing here in the Niagara Region. Although the endless sea of wineries and chain restaurants have much to offer, there is something special about the independent establishments that have pushed through the repeated CoVID19 lockdowns that made curb-side pickup and delivery the only options.

When a Region that is widely dependent on tourism shuts down, it is up to the locals to pick up the slack to keep the industry afloat, and Local residents have done just that. “We have been so busy with delivery orders,” says Danny, the owner of Danny’s Sushi. The community has created new Facebook groups dedicated to supporting the local dining industry since the rise of CoVID19, with some groups only allowing positive reviews.

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