I had most recently had the opportunity to travel to Toronto to attend the 2007 Meal Exchange conference called "Esurio" which is Latin: to hunger, to yearn.

The conference brought together youth from various campuses in Canada that do not have the same background in experience, study or even future plans but all see one common problem that is not being addressed. Hunger, be it students on campus, mothers, children and those in communities they live in alike it is an issue that touches the fabric of daily life. With the problems of everyday over consumption, the lack of access to healthy food or even the waste of the bulk of what is locally available due to systems that reduce the shelf life of produce. I have been opened up to the large growing movement of protecting the Right that every person has to eat, from the first day that I started to work on a small organic farm in the rural community of Morell, Prince Edward Island. Since then having my interest peaked from working long days in the fields caring for the produce in a sustainable manner. To learning first hand the pratices of corporations to use their buying power to reduce the farmers hardly earned wage for their product or import from industrialized mega farms from the west coast of the United States just because their market price was lower. I would recommend anyone that is interested in Food Security to look at the publications available from Food Secure Canada. I would ask any one that is working towards solving this issue to join along with the Meal Exchange group and organization to share ideas, concepts and education to show that youth are making great advances in this area.

I have also included a video that has a very good global context without forgetting about the local.