-Proposal textThe 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 ProposalPublic policy that the party would representObjective / BenefitObjective-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 proposal1. 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-disparitiesDoes-this proposal affect any particular group and what efforts have been made to consult with the group-or groups?N/AJurisdiction: Is this proposal under federal jurisdiction?YesPlease indicate the-language the proposal is being submitted in.English
- +Proposal Title:
- +Science-Based Food Policy: Selective Support of the 2019 Canada Food Guide
- +Proposal Text
- +The GPC selectively 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.
- +Reason for amendment: The wording "fully and unequivocally supports" is too strong an endorsement,
- +as many members of the GPC would dispute the inclusion of any animal products whatsoever in the 2019
- +Canadian Food Guide. The original text's sentiment of "fully and unequivocally" supporting a food
- +guide that promotes animal products limits the GPC's ability to develop bold policies that favor
- +vegan foods over animal-based ones. Using the phrase "selectively" instead of "fully and
- +unequivocally" allows the GPC to pick and choose which sections of the 2019 food guide receive the
- +GPC's endorsement.
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