Persuasive Speech: Canned Food Drive

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I like helping people and I am sure that some of you do as well. Over the span of our lives from kindergarden to highschool, we have been given numerous opportunities to help those that are less fortunate. Events such as the Terry Fox Run, fundraisers for schools, and food drives are amongst the most common. But did you know that some of these ways to “help” are not the best?. Today, I would like to talk about a specific issue, I would like to discuss why canned food drives are a terrible solution to helping the poor. Over the last year, 841,191 people in Canada relied on food banks to feed their families. During the year, many publically run food drives are entailed for the more fortunate to help those in need

This problem also relates to the lack of variety that exists in canned food drives. People often argue that “food tastes better when it’s free”, but that isn’t reasonable. We are donating for a justifiable cause and our contributions must make a supportive difference. A difference in which, the food being “free” doesn’t mean it will always be a benefit to the food drive. () Many problems exist with canned food drives. Aspects of it, such as; food being high in sodium, food not providing daily nutritional requirements, food being just food. Many families are in need of other donatable products such as diapers, baby formula, clothing, etc. Products that canned food drives are not able to provide although ironically their goal is to provide for those in need. There is one small solution that resolves the substantial problems of canned food drives and that is money. By donating money, food pantries are able to buy valuable food items at wholesale levels and they achieve this through working with local farmers. So instead of using that $3 to buy a can of beans, food banks can take that $3 and turn it into an exponential amount of