The dark history of Canada’s Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy – CBC

Apr 19, 2021

When historian Ian Mosby published evidence that the Canadian government had conducted nutritional experiments on Indigenous children in residential schools, his findings made headlines across the country.

In his academic article ‘Administering Colonial Science,’ published in 2013, Mosby revealed how nutritional studies and experiments were performed in Indigenous communities and residential schools in the 1940s and ’50s.

The tests were apparently done, explained Mosby, without the informed consent or knowledge of the Indigenous people involved.

What isn’t yet widely known, said Mosby, a professor of history at Ryerson University, is how these experiments are directly connected to Canada’s Food Guide.

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