Submit your story

Submit your Food Story

We all have a story to share concerning food. We want to hear yours! Through this harvest of testimonials, we want to highlight the impact of policies on the daily life of citizens in addition to demonstrate the importance of the application of a policy of food sovereignty at the federal level. Your stories will feed the development of the People’s Food Policy and support our policy recommendations on food policy.

We all have a story to share... Take this opportunity to make your voice heard!

Tell us your stories of the problems encountered by citizens and communities facing Canadian food systems and/or share initiatives implemented to face them.

You can:

• Tell us your story
• Tell us the story of someone you know through an interview (you can refer to this small guide online!)
• Tell us the story of your community.

How? : 

• By Video: record the story you want to tell us, upload your video on youtube or vimeo, and share the link of this video with us.
• By sound recording: save your history on a recording software such as "Audacity" or "Podproducer", host then your registration on such "TypSoft FTP server" or "Filezilla" free FTP server, retrieve the internet your sound on the FTP server registration link and send it to us!
• Text and photo: write your story, attach a photo, and send us your text by e-mail.

Here is an example of what we are looking for :

 David Gilbert began by processing his own animals for his family’s table. “People started asking me to butcher their animals as well,” David says, “and so I had to learn how to handle the whole range of species raised in my community. Most of this was custom killing (not for sale, although of course families would exchange from farm to farm). Pretty soon I figured I needed to expand my small building and got a second cooler and species-specific kill floors for food safety. It was all fine until the new regulations which made my whole operation illegal, and there was no way I could meet the cost of the new government requirements.” David had to close his abattoir after 40 years of serving the local farming community, leaving his neighbours with no alternative within their region. To avoid the stress on their animals, and the expense, many small farmers have simply stopped keeping animals.

To read more stories, see our pamphlets

For Hosting a Food Story Circle, consult our Participation Guide.