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This chapter examines the corporatization of charitable food banking in Canada since the early 1980s, and the role of corporate food charity in the depoliticization of domestic hunger as a matter of human rights and welfare state obligations. It explores the processes and roles played by ‘Big Food’, dominated by the US transnational food industry (see PLoSMedecine Editors. PLoS Med 9(6):e1001246. http://collections.plos.org/big-food, 2012; Hoffman B. Behind the brands: food justice and the Big 10 food and beverage companies. Oxfam International. https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/behind-brands, 2013), professional sports, the music industry, and the media (specifically the CBC), in facilitating the growth and corporatization of today’s ‘food charity economy’. It also investigates the effectiveness of this economy for alleviating poverty and addressing food insecurity in Canada.
This chapter was originally published in Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby, eds., Corporatizing Canada: Making Business out of Public Service (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018), and is reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
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Riches, G. (2022). The Corporatization of Food Charity in Canada: Implications for Domestic Hunger, Poverty Reduction, and Public Policy. In: Escajedo San-Epifanio, L., Rebato Ochoa, E.M. (eds) Ethics of Charitable Food. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93600-6_10
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