Action and Info - Poverty in Canada
Campaign 2000 is a Canadian organization dedicated to ending child poverty. Their site gives lots of information about poverty in Canada, including things you can do to stop it.
To read articles about the Coroner's Inquest into Kimberly Rogers' death, go to http://dawn.thot.net/Kimberly_Rogers/kria.html
To learn more about global poverty, and what you can do to stop it, go to http://incommon.web.ca/anglais/index.html
Action and Info - Agricultural Subsidies
There are a few things you can do to help the global food distribution problem:
- Buy locally grown food, or buy food that is produced with few herbicides and pesticides. Local food requires little transportation, and by buying it you help nearby farmers to earn a living. As the Haiti case shows, if everyone buys locally grown food, there will be less hunger in the world.
- Eat less meat. To produce a quarter-pound hamburger patty, a cow has to be fed about 1.2 pounds of grain. About 2,400 litres of water are used up in the process of feeding the animal and growing the grain. This takes up a lot of resources. If you eat less meat, then your diet will use up less of the world's energy.
To learn more about Haitian rice farmers, go to the Make Trade Fair site and click on 'Chris Martin in Haiti'
To read what people are doing to improve the future of agriculture, check out http://www.farmingsolutions.org/
The US Farm Bill, which was signed into law in May 2002, increases the amount of subsidies that US farmers receive. To learn more about the Bill, and to read various reactions to it, go to http://www.ems.org/farm_bill/facts.html
About three billion people-half the world's population-eat mainly rice. It is an ancient grain that has a rich cultural history. To learn more about the relationships that different cultures have with rice, go to www.khandro.net/ nature_plants_rice.htm
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