Food prices expected to rise even more next year - Publication Date |
- Dec 07, 2023
- Episode Duration |
- 00:52:48
Canada's Food Price Report 2024 was released today, predicting that food prices will increase by 2.5 - 4% next year, or by $700 for a family of four. One of the study's authors, University of British Columbia's Food and Resource Economics professor Richard Barichello, joins us to discuss. We then hear from CBC Business Reporter Sophia Harris who investigated shrinkflation and found some disturbing examples at Loblaws. In our second half, we talk about strategies for eating healthily with Fatima da Silva, Nourish Cowichan's co-founder and executive director, and Mary L'Abbe, nutritional sciences professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a director for the World Health Organization on nutrition policy for chronic disease prevention.