The soup bar is designed to address student hunger by feeding about 900 students a day for free, or whatever the students can afford to chip in. The Hungry for Knowledge report explains that in general, the concept of food insecurity includes factors that have nothing to do with hunger. Lacking access to food that is “produced in environmentally sustainable ways” is considered a form of food insecurity. In terms of the Humber College soup bar, if its costs are not being imposed on Humber students or on government, then its superfluity could be of limited economic and moral concern. However, the context of the soup bar — the unquestioned understanding that student hunger is a major and growing issue — is problematic.

Source: National Post September 23, 2018 17:26 UTC