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<h1 style="text-align: center;">[DRAFT] why food banks are stupid [DRAFT]</h1>
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<li><strong>] DISCLAIMER - this is NOT</strong></li>
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<li>] a bash on the people who work at the food bank -</li>
<li>] a bash on the people who donate &nbsp;to the food bank -</li>
<li>] a bash on the people who need foodbanks -</li>
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<h2>[ WHAT's the PROBLEM ]</h2>
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<li>] An article in the local newspaper showing a photo of an almost entirely empty food bank warehouse, explaining that the demand for the food bank is up over previous years ( props for having actual #'s showing year over year increasing demand) and that their supply of food is almost entirely exhausted.</li>
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<li>] <a href="http://www.theprogress.com/news/280363892.html" target="_blank">Empty warehouse in Chilliwack prompts request for donations - Chilliwack Progress</a></li>
<li>] key takeway #1, our city of approx 80k, currenlty consumes about 540 food baskets per month</li>
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<li>] Another article listing one family's experience with living on a food bank basket, this article included the actual contents of what the food bank basket that they received contained and their experience living off of the food basket diet for a week,</li>
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<li>] <a href="http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=174647" target="_blank">Poverty&rsquo;s eating me | NOW Magazine</a></li>
<li>] key takeway #1 - food basket contents</li>
<li>] key takeway #2 - food basket food is nutritional crap</li>
<li>] key takeway #3 - living off of the fbd likely means you will lose weight, low energy, hungry</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2014-10-25</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] depositing(donating) into a foodbank</strong></li>
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<li>] donator travels to food store</li>
<li>] donator buys "suggested" item</li>
<li>] (food store has drop box)</li>
<li>] charity has to travel to store(s) and pickup drop box from store</li>
<li>] charity has to sort donations into food baskets</li>
<li>] charity has to operate food basket vending</li>
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<li><strong>] withdrawing from a foodbank</strong></li>
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<li>] donatee - has to travel to foodbank location to</li>
<li>] donatee - has to travel to home with food basket</li>
<li>] donatee - has to prepare</li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<li><strong>] food should be available in the food stores</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] provide donatee's with a "food credit card"</strong> ,</li>
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<li>] PREVENT ABUSE - by limit card to "food stores, food items",</li>
<li>] provide "suggested" items list/menu plans to maximize cost/benefit but ultimately donator chooses,</li>
<li>] incentivize food stores to provide ,</li>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] donator - person who is donating food to food bank</li>
<li>] donatee -</li>
<li>] charity -</li>
<li>] <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/12/08/Close-Food-Banks/" target="_blank">what would jesus do? Close food banks</a>&nbsp;- by Bill Teilman @thetyee.ca -&nbsp;He'd see they're no solution to poverty, and never will be.&nbsp;</li>
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