Letter: Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US, say signatories including Prof Olivier de Schutter, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to food
At a time when the UK’s likely break with Europe is widely expected to increase poverty and reliance on food charity, the Global FoodBanking Network is meeting in London to promote its corporate message of food banks as the link between food waste and food poverty, indeed a “green” intervention promising zero hunger. Given the lack of evidence, this is deeply troubling, especially in light of the UK government’s recent £15m fund to expand charitable surplus food redistribution.
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