Earning public trust in Canadian food - Ms. Crystal Mackay, CEO Farm & Food Care Canada, from the 2016 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), October 5 - 6, 2016, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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2. Food, public trust and social license
• Earning trust starts with doing the right thing.
• This is not unique to agriculture or food or
Canada.
• This should not be a competitive issue.
• This is not a communications problem.
• This is a food system business challenge.
The game has changed.
3. • Coordinate, strategy, research –
Canadian CFI
• Engage with Canadians
• Collaborate with many partners
Canadian charity with a shared vision for
building public trust in food and farming.
4. Create a forum for dialogue
Coordinate strategy, research and support
Increase understanding of and alignment with consumer
expectations and values
Helping Canada’s food system earn public trust
5.
6.
7. Is the Canadian food
system headed in the
right direction or
down the wrong
track?
www.foodintegrity.ca
8. Top overall life concerns for
Canadians
Canadian Centre for Food Integrity
Public Trust Research 2016
www.foodintegrity.ca
9. Increasingly Positive impression of
Canadian agriculture
Q10. What would you say is your overall impression of Canadian
agriculture today? Would you say your impression is...
2006: 41%
2009: 52%
2012: 56%
2016: 61%
% Very + Somewhat Positive
10. 10
Significant concerns human health
“I am personally concerned about”
• Use of hormones in farm animals
• Drug resistance due to farm
animals given antibiotics
• Drug residues in meat, milk, eggs
• Use of pesticides in crops
• Eating meat from GE animals
Q13. Please rate the degree to which you agree or disagree with the
following statements.
Strongly Agree
45-48%
14. Who do you believe on environmental issues?
10%
70%
50%
Canadian Centre for Food Integrity
Public Trust Research 2016
www.foodintegrity.ca
Substantially Higher: Foodies, Moms
Substantially Lower: Millennials
Farmers
Associations
A Government
Environmental
Researcher
David
Suzuki
An
Environmental
Engineer
A University
Environmental
Science
Professor
A Farmer or
Rancher
Environmental
Advocacy
Groups
15.
16. Invest in shared content
www.farmfoodcare.org
@FarmFoodCare
Help increase the reach. Add in your people, content and examples.
17. Farm & Food Care tours for influencers
• Media
• Food industry executives
• Food bloggers
• Dietitians
• Chefs, culinary colleges
20. Do you agree?
Canadian farmers are good stewards of the
environment
Q13. Please rate the degree to which you agree
or disagree with the following statements.
29% say yes
% = Strongly Agree
(Top Box (8-10) on 0 to 10 scale)
Farmers
20% say yes
Fishermen
21. Help us share your content, your people and
your stories. Pitch in.
Individuals donate to Farm & Food Care
Companies & Organizations
Join Canadian Centre for Food Integrity
Invest in public outreach programs
If you want to drive change,
you have to get out of the
back of the truck.
Collaborate – unique forum for whole sector cooperation and shared investment
Engage and inform – proactive communications, shared content development & delivery, conversations with Canadians
Coordinate – strategy, research and support to help the food system earn public trust
So why is public trust important?
Well sadly it’s hardest to measure until it’s lost. The Secretary of Agriculture from California spoke in Ottawa at a conference last week about “can Canada be considered the most trusted food supply in the world?” One of her startling quotes was “we farm in California because our urban neighbours allow us to.”
WOW.
Right here at home in Manitoba there’s essentially been a moratorium on building pig barns. Why? Your neighbours said no.
Is that just a pork producers problem? Remember I said we’re in the business of feeding people together? You can’t double production for export markets when you can’t build a barn. You can’t double the grain grown to feed those pigs, can’t sell more combines, or create more jobs, pork processing plant bringing pigs from Ontario, and more. The whole supply chain loses and more.
David Suzuki 56%
Farmers & ranchers 70%
Funding programs will include regional and national agri-food awareness efforts, as well as more specific work on environmental and farm animal care issues.
A new charitable foundation that will support food and farming outreach programs
The Farm Care Foundation, an initiative of AGCare and the Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC), will focus its activities on public trust and confidence in food and farming.
Here’s a great news example of how we can work together proactively to make the news and reach those who influence menus and others thinking on what they eat.
FFC SK hosted two tours in the summer of 2015 for “food influencers”, one in Regina and one in Saskatoon.
National/international food writers, international culinary academics and local chefs and other food experts were invited onto farms, ranches to experience where and how food is produced in Saskatchewan.
The intent of this program is to build relationships with key people who have influence on consumers and the food they eat.
Building these relationships with key chefs and food writers across North America is important to:
improve public trust in the knowledge and responsibility shown by our farmers and ranchers
enhance understanding and acceptance of modern farming practices
establish FFC as a source of trusted information on farming
increase awareness, both locally and internationally, of the extent and variety of food produced in Saskatchewan (Canada)
Objectives:
Connecting the dots
Tackling the trends
Celebrating food and farming and the incredible people who make it all happen.