As of today, I’m about 89% done the documentary! It has been a a very long process, filled with excitement, frustration, and a lot of hard work.

We have been able to interview Leftovers Calgary, The Calgary Food Bank, Green Calgary, The Coup, and Sinnott’s Independent Grocer. All of them have provided us with great insight, and support. And over the past weekend, I’ve gone through all the footage, organized every interview, and matched all the audio. and all that’s left to do is, final edits, audio/music additions, decide the final order of interviews, and render it!

Here is a copy of the script we have for our group’s statements in the video:

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| Courtney Sinnott | Josh Langstaff | Vannessa Arowobusoye | Megan Koevoet |

31 Billion dollars

That’s how much Canada wastes annually in food waste. 10% of this waste comes from retail. That’s 3.1 billion dollars of food wasted in Canadian grocery stores annually.

Bill C-231 was an act introduced by Ms. Brosseau in Canadian parliament in 2016 “ to establish National Food Waste Awareness Day and to provide for the development of a national strategy to reduce food waste in Canada”

In this Bill, she stated that the Minister of Agriculture must develop and implement a national strategy to reduce food waste in Canada.

This strategy was meant to include measures of donation, by the private sector, of blemished but edible food products to community organizations and food banks;

Sadly this bill was defeated Oct 5th 2016.

Although there are not any Federal laws in place in Canada in regards to food waste, many cities and towns have different programs in place to tackle this issue.

In Quebec, they have implemented the supermarket recovery program, which offers a unique and sustainable solution to the problems of food waste and food insecurity, in partnership with food retailers.

As of 2016,  France, has implemented a federal law which makes it illegal for grocery stores to discard food that is approaching it’s best before date, and is still considered edible, and they have to donate it to charities and organizations.

 

 

We want to follow their lead

We want to lower the amount of food waste that happens and bring awareness to this issue,

We believe that if Calgary takes this step and puts a bylaw in place that makes it so that grocery stores cannot waste edible food, this will set an example for the rest of Canada.

850,000 Canadians, 36% of them young people and children, visited food banks each month in 2015;

We need to start taking steps that minimize the amount of food wasted at a retail level, as this action will enable further access to food; a basic a human right.

 

Let Calgary be the innovative city that it is and take this next step in our fight against food waste.