Today, June 7th, is World Food Safety Day. It is a day marked by invisibility. When food systems work well, we don’t notice them. You cook, you eat, and you go on about your day. We don’t think too much about it, until we get sick.
What this invisibility hides are the workers who keep Canada’s food systems strong: food inspectors with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and food scientists and researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). Right now, the federal government is cutting both.
That’s why today, on World Food Safety Day, we’re ringing the alarm bells to demand the Carney government put Food Safety First.
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Since launching our Food Safety First campaign a few weeks ago, over 2000 people like you have sent letters to their MPs to protect Canadian food, families, and the economy. We’ve received national media attention and spoken at press conferences on Parliament Hill. Our billboards have gone up in cities from coast to coast.
But it’s not enough. The time to act is now. If you haven’t yet sent a letter, click the button below to send yours today. It only takes 30 seconds.
If the Carney government continues on its course of slashing our food safety, the consequences will be dire for generations to come.
And I’ve seen the consequences firsthand. I grew up in a farming family in Swift Current, Saskatchewan — Canada’s bread basket. Farmers and farming communities there rely on critical public research from AAFC to keep their crops resilient and competitive. But just the other week, field crews at the Swift Current federal agricultural research station destroyed the country’s only public organic research plots. The National Farmer’s Union called it “egregious,” and as a Saskatchewanian, it breaks my heart.
Every Canadian deserves to eat without fearing for their health. Every Canadian farmer deserves to prosper with the support of the world’s best scientific research. These are the values that our country was built on, but today they’re under threat.
Thank you for being part of our Food Safety First campaign and for standing with us this World Food Safety Day.
Warm regards,
Milton Dyck,
National President, Agriculture Union
