Hungry for a change

Famine is not a pretty sight.

I see famine every day in Toronto. The homeless man, asking for spare change. He has nothing to eat. Nobody cares about him. He has nowhere to sleep. There is no roof over his head. He is shunned by society; he smells of urine and sherry. He smokes expensive filter cigarettes that I cannot afford, and he wears expensive clothes but is too poor to have them cleaned.

But there is hope. Activists with the Ontario Association of Food Banks (*) want to transfer wealth from those that earn it to those that do not. While everyone in Ontario has access to free food at the food banks, free food is not enough. You can read the agenda that the free food activists have right here (*), because free food does not fight famine in Ontario.

You are not alone in wondering why free food from Ontario food banks is not enough to fight famine. Others question why, but more others have answers.

Doctors against famine. When doctors are not saving lives, they are lobbying for more funding to fight famine. The Ontario Medical Association has some smart arguments, using big words, on the food crisis in Ontario (*). This will convince many taxpayers that more of their money should be taken and given to taxspenders. And if doctors cannot convince you, how about a network of concerned people (*)? These activists run a boot-camp, they care so much. And, of course, our administrators in the provincial government care about famine too (*). They want to end famine.

Free food does not address the food needs of those most vulnerable. That is why the professional activists who staff the hundred food banks across the province have banded together to create the Hungry for Change pitch for money. Food, free food, does not feed people. Re-distribution of wealth does.

Because in a province which has both an epidemic of obesity, and an epidemic of hunger, the New Left Logic finds a solution to the contradiction (can one both be fat and hungry?) in the lifting of wallets. If you disagree, you are a racist. So, shut up and pay. Listen to the tapeworm who tells you that you are hungry, not to the voice that says that you have worms.

I am Hungry for Change. I want the laws of logic changed so that mutually exclusive events are not mutually exclusive events. Let Blubber-Canadians be the same as Boney-Canadians through the magical thinking that is the telemarketing truth told to you by the activists whose hands will carry your money from your wallet to theirs. It is for a good cause. The voice on the telephone says so.

I, Fenris Badwulf, wrote this at both Mitchieville and Dustmybroom.