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Increase Food Security and Healthy Food

healthy food: Joel MacCharles , co-founder of WellPreserved.ca, writer, cook 2013 TEDxToronto speaker, according to The Star. Transforming our food policy has the potential to reduce congestion on roads with less need to transport food , lower cost of healthy food by building infrastructure, reduce waste, decrease health costs, lower hunger, increase food security, lower cost of living, lower the environmental impact of our food system, increase employment and enhance community. Every one of us needs to eat. By improving food policy we are improving the quality of life for every individual, and this is why it has my vote and As we close in on a transformative list of Big Ideas to transform Toronto , some of TEDxTorontos biggest thinkers have jumped into the citywide brainstorming session. Past and upcoming speakers and performers from TEDx , whose mission is Ideas worth spreading, have chosen their favourite proposals from the top 20 ideas unveiled earlier this month: Big Idea: Adopt a bold food strategy (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.