“The cost of food is out of control. Today, 42 percent of Inuit children arrive at school hungry – more than anywhere else in Canada,” wrote MP Idlout.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One aspect I hope they address, is that flying in food to remote areas is weight sensitive. For example, they fly in canned beans, when bagged dry beans weigh so much less because no tin and no water.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 months ago

Bagged dry beans require more prep before they can be eaten, though, and you have to have the clean water to rehydrate them on site, and the know-how to do it. There's an energy cost (electricity in remote off-grid communities isn't necessarily cheap either), and a time cost on the part of the people cooking, all of which has to be taken into consideration. That doesn't mean that replacing canned foodstuffs with dried or freeze-dried can't be part of the answer, but it may have to be supplemented with recipes or facilities or cooking classes or something.

If there's a systemic issue here that goes beyond people in the supply chain profiteering, the solution may not be simple.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Let's use pipelines? Do the thing they do to ship two types of product. Everything in barrels.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I wonder how "The North West Company" stock is doing?