– Coronavirus: inspiring community attempts to stem increased hunger need government help
There is an error in the last sentence. For most people, the first and subsequent payments will be monthly. The fortnightly payment was stated on a Gov COVID update highlighting changes but has subsequently…
– Coronavirus: inspiring community attempts to stem increased hunger need government help
Hunger is increasing but community organisations, local government and the food industry are working to fill the gap.
– Reality of poverty in Newcastle, England: UN examines effect of austerity
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– Reality of poverty in Newcastle, England: UN examines effect of austerity
“As these categories make up a large proportion of the population, without this analysis I find your argument unconvincing.” Please see below. The very old, and very young are not included in these figures…
– Reality of poverty in Newcastle, England: UN examines effect of austerity
And the converse is true. But just to make this a bit more real median UK income today is 27,300, which makes it that those living in poverty are earning 16,300/year–That is £1365/month, £313/week or…
– Rising income inequalities are linked to unhealthy diets and loneliness
UK mired by food 'deserts' and a crisis of loneliness – they should be tackled together.
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
Thanks Ed. Yes, this is my experience as well…and many retailers. I think one of the points I am trying to make is that it also requires infrastructure (machines, people, etc) to do this and quite often…
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
Processed food also includes food that is what you might consider whole food –e.g., tomatoes. It is processed because it is sorted and put into containers to be shipped. Sometimes–mostly–this involves…
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
ah…coffee… nectar of the gods :-)
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
Yep they do, rather a lot more per household. But the volumes of food going through manufacturing are significantly greater than in the average household and typically commercial food that is surplus…
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
No one is perfect and it isn’t that easy. If you want food year round and don’t want to eat cabbage that you have grown yourself all winter there will be surplus. It is as simple as that. We have never…
– Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here's where it occurs
Food is not waste until it's wasted.
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
There have always been hungry people in the UK. Food charities are not a new thing. Two things are new. The franchising of food banks by the Trussell Trust made a visible network and allowed the collection…
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
It depends upon what scale you are looking at–as nations the UK and US–for example are food secure because there is enough food per capita. At household scale–where food insecurity is felt– in these food…
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
Thank you David. This was part of the point, surplus happens for a whole host of reasons, including natural reasons, which have very little to do with inefficiencies of resource use–stuff breaks, nature…
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
I’m not sure what your point is in the first couple of paragraphs so difficult to respond. The framing for this is based on Luhmann’s systems theory. There is a very wide literature (both academic and…
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
Well there has,actually—famine in Germany in 1947-8. Dustbowl in the US in the 1930’s another example.
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
Thank you for your comment. I actually wanted to call this piece Food means food…or does it? The reason being that the argument is more about how we normalise certain food pathways, while stigmatising…
– Capitalism has coopted the language of food – costing the world millions of meals
Food is just food ... or is it?
Quoted directly from the government's own social mobility and child poverty commission report published in March of this year (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bridging-the-social-divide) pg…