Dufferin County backs Food & Water First!

From small rural municipalities to Toronto, the Food & Water First movement continues to win support. Dufferin County has voted unanimously to become a Food & Water First county, the first county in Ontario to do so!  Dufferin County Council members passed the following motion:

WHEREAS only 5% of Ontario’s land is suitable for farming;

AND WHEREAS only half of one percent of Canada’s soil is Class 1;

AND WHEREAS Ontario, with over 56% of Canada’s Class 1 land has lost, in the two decades between 1976 and 1996, 18% of its Class 1 land;

AND WHEREAS prime farmland is a non-renewable finite resource;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the County of Dufferin endorse the Food & Water First campaign.

Thank you, Dufferin County!