Food Not Bombs
What does Food Not Bombs do?
Each Saturday, Food Not Bombs picks up donated food from grocery stores, cooks fresh vegetarian meals, and serves these hot meals to the community for free. Servings are held in front of Kitchener City Hall from 1:30-3:30pm. We are always looking for new volunteers to help out! We need cooks, servers, people to do pick-up at the grocery stores, and people to help clean-up!
What grocery stores donate food?
Central Fresh Market donates produce and other food that has been recently taken off the shelves.
Grainharvest Breadhouse is a bakery that donates rolls, buns, and other baked goods.
Where does the cooking and serving take place?
Cooking takes place at The Working Centre in downtown Kitchener. Servings take place out front of Kitchener City Hall. Any leftover food is then donated to House of Friendship.
Why does Food Not Bombs do what it does?
Because food is a right, not a privilege. Because scarcity is a patriarchal lie. Because a woman should not have to use her body to get a meal, or to have a place to sleep. Because when we are hungry, we have the right to get what we need. Because poverty is a form of violence neither necessary nor natural.
Because capitalism makes food a source of profit, not a source of nutrition. Because food does grow on trees. Because we need community, not control. Because we need homes, not jails. Because we need FOOD NOT BOMBS!
