Today
Today.
There exists a UK-approved international treaty that recognises the right to ‘nutritionally adequate and safe food for every individual.’ We know that today, due to unprecedented levels of UK poverty, this right is not upheld. We could support this claim by publishing a vast array of figures and statistics, but I don’t think we need to.
This year, a report commissioned by the UN attributed the UK’s national poverty crisis to ‘deliberate policy choices’ that have removed the UK’s social safety net.
They’re right. To stop food poverty, government policy must change.
To end hunger, a variety of government reforms and actions and strategies must be addressed.
These policy changes, as we have learned, will undoubtedly, deplorably even, be delivered slowly and incoherently – if they’re to be delivered at all.
Should we be infuriated at this political indolence and unwillingness?
Yes.
Should we remain outraged that our most vulnerable citizens are consistently endangered by the government’s experiments in austerity?
Absolutely.
Should we, as one Guardian article put it, be vociferously ‘discomforted’ at the mere existence of food banks in 2019 Britain?
Yes. Undoubtedly so.
But right now, today, food banks do exist.
And if there’s one change we can make, on behalf of a child going hungry today, it’s introducing food standards into food banks. Because today, there are over 1200 UK food banks that do not supply fresh food – and today there are millions of families relying on ultra-processed, unhealthy food at potentially the hardest time in their lives.
So our message to you is, keep fighting. Keep doing it. Keep pleading. Keep putting pressure on our government to eradicate poverty. We’re standing with you.
And right now, today, we need you to stand with us.
Support the introduction of food standards for national food-aid bodies. Share this post as far and wide as your can, using the hashtag #doNATION across social media and let’s change millions of lives for the better.
While we fight for a fairer tomorrow, let’s create a fairer today.
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