Check off the issues that affect your life, or the lives of people in your community.

... Being able to get the food I need

	Being able to get to a place to buy or grow food
	Not having to worry about whether I have enough to eat
	Being able to prepare and cook food
	Being able to get food in a way that doesn't
	Not being judged for where I get my food, or for the foods that I choose to eat

... Being able to eat safe and healthy foods

	Being able to afford healthy food
	Having access to safe food that I know is good for me
	Having access to information so that I can understand how pesticides, preservatives, additives and genetically modified foods can affect my health
	Being able to give my children the food that I know they need to grow and be healthy
	Knowing where my food comes from and what is in it

... Being able to get foods I like and want to eat

	Being able to afford the food that I want to eat
	Enjoying my food
	Sharing my food with my family and friends
	Celebrating my culture or community with food
	Enjoying the foods of my culture

... Protecting the water, land and people who grow and produce food

	Being able to grow my own food
	Ensuring that food can be produced for my children's children
	Ensuring that growing, producing, processing, storing, and selling food doesn’t hurt our environment or our communities
	Having space, land, water and soil for farms and gardens
	Ensuring that people can earn a living wage by growing, producing, processing, handling, selling, or serving food
	Ensuring that our water is clean enough for us to drink and for fish to survive in

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"I felt [the people at the food bank] were looking down on me... I felt inadequate and I felt ashamed and I felt all those things."

"But, I do suffer nutritionally and I can see it sometimes in my eyes and my face gets sucked in cause I don't have enough fruit and stuff. Because you want to give it to your kids."

"Healthy food is more expensive. Food that is good for you is too expensive. There's a big difference between filling my kid's belly and feeding them nutritiously. Buy food to fill them, not healthy foods. Food to fill."

“They’re working, but they’re poor...They work for the [Supermarket] making minimum wage, they only get 26 hours a week.”