The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition

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The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy

policies were creating conditions of hunger

In the 1940s, federal bureaucrats found that malnutrition was widespread in Indigenous communities and residential schools. But this wasn't new information to many Indigenous people.

"Indigenous people had been arguing for a long time that their kids were hungry in residential schools, that government policies were creating conditions of hunger in their communities," explained Mosby.

The Canadian government began to send researchers to examine these conditions of hunger. In many cases, the researchers found "severe malnutrition," said Mosby.

Some federal bureaucrats and scientists saw the pervasive malnutrition and hunger experienced by Indigenous people as an opportunity to test their scientific theories.

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1. The fallout of this is still ongoing for Indigenous people.

Colonialism: the gift that keeps on taking.

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