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- Proposal text
- The GPC fully and unequivocally supports the recommendations of Canada’s Food Guide 2019, particularly its emphases on consuming largely plant-based diets; addressing issues of nutritious food access and food insecurity affecting low-income, immigrant, and Indigenous people; increasing food skills and food literacy; and considering the environmental impacts of food choices.
- Type of Proposal
- Public policy that the party would represent
- Objective / Benefit
- Objective This initiative will bring the party’s food and health policies in line with evidence-based nutrition, correct the previous platform’s statement in support of dairy, and will further commitments to environmental sustainability, to social justice in general, and to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in particular. Benefit Adopting this initiative will strengthen the Green Party of Canada’s commitment to science-based policy, and will substantively further its commitment to supporting the health of Canadians; to decreasing healthcare costs; to alleviating inequities facing low-income, immigrant, and Indigenous people; and to reducing environmental degradation.
- If your proposal replaces an existing policy or policies, which one does it replace?
- Add to current GPC policy 1998 - Agriculture.
- List any supporting evidence for your proposal
- 1. American Medical Association. Culturally Responsive Dietary and Nutritional Guidelines. https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/D-440.978?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-0-1522.xml 2. Canadian pharmacists journal. "Canada's new Healthy Eating Strategy: Implications for health care professionals and a call to action." https://doi.org/10.1177/1715163519834891 3. Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada. Submission to SOCI regarding Bill S-228[...] https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/421/SOCI/Briefs/ChronicDiseasePreventionAlliance_e.pdf 4. Should dairy be recommended as part of a healthy vegetarian diet? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19321571/ 5. Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. “Doctors Call on Dietary Guidelines to Ditch Dairy to Fight Racial Health Disparities.” https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/doctors-call-dietary-guidelines-ditch-dairy-fight-racial-health-disparities
- Does this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group or groups?
- N/A
- Jurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?
- Yes
- Please indicate the language the proposal is being submitted in.
- English
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Proposal Title:Science-Based Food Policy: Selective Support of the 2019 Canada Food GuideProposal...
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Conversation with Barry Mabillard
According to the Dairy Farmers of Canada, it takes 25 L of water to make 1 L of dairy milk. Oat milk, which uses the least water among the plant-based milks, requires 48 L of water per 1 L of oat milk. If these numbers are truthful, then shouldn't the GPC actually be encouraging dairy milk over plant-based milks for using less water?
https://dairyfarmersofcanada.ca/en/canadian-goodness/ask-dairy-experts/how-much-water-do-dairy-farms-use-or-re-use (Reference for 25 L)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/oat-milk-trend-benefiting-saskatchewan-canada-1.5325171 (Reference for 48 L)
If those numbers were truthful then yes, they're not though.
Dairy milk requires more land, more water, creates more GHGs and manure pollution.
Plus it's cruel to the animals to forcibly impregnate them, steal their babies, and subject them to a life of reproductive slavery.
This is a good overview of dairy compared to plant milks: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks
Here's a news article showing that dairy cows cry when their babies are stolen from them, all mothers love their babies. https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/strange-noises-turn-out-to-be-cows-missing-their-calves/article_d872e4da-b318-5e90-870e-51266f8eea7f.html
And here's a more recent one with goats crying for the same reason: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quadra-island-rcmp-mysterious-screaming-1.7029695
Dairy is environmentally unsustainable and cruel.
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