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Food Banks
Apparently even more people are using them now. http://
When something is free, demand will always outstrip supply. Are we saying that if these food banks disappeared, these people would starve to death?
When something is free, demand will always outstrip supply. Are we saying that if these food banks disappeared, these people would starve to death?
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I get so cross with you people sometimes. It's easy to be judgemental when life is nice isn't it?
I was made redundant in the same month I found out that I was seriously ill. I lost everything. Why?
Because the system I had been paying into religiously for over 20 years did not fork out a penny for 7 months.
I had no other form of income. I could have literally starved to death for all anyone cared and during this I was being treated in hospital for a life threatening illness.
My saviour was an online friend who to this day I have never met and never been able to pay back, much to my shame.
They wired me actual money. I would have given up without their help, I am certain of that, so before you castigate the claimants, have a god look at the system and count your lucky bloody stars that it wasn't you!
I was made redundant in the same month I found out that I was seriously ill. I lost everything. Why?
Because the system I had been paying into religiously for over 20 years did not fork out a penny for 7 months.
I had no other form of income. I could have literally starved to death for all anyone cared and during this I was being treated in hospital for a life threatening illness.
My saviour was an online friend who to this day I have never met and never been able to pay back, much to my shame.
They wired me actual money. I would have given up without their help, I am certain of that, so before you castigate the claimants, have a god look at the system and count your lucky bloody stars that it wasn't you!
It’s no use you getting cross with “us people” who have the temerity to decline to accept that people would have died on the streets but for food banks, Mojo-Jo-Jo. Did you get no redundancy payment? Statutory redundancy pay is one week's pay for every year worked. Did you have no savings to tide you over, having worked for twenty years?
Anyway, all by the by. I’ll knock your case off my 660,000 that are now using food banks who were not doing so a year or so ago. Any ideas about the rapid decline in fortunes of the other 659,999 who have taken up free food recently (other than the fact that it was not available previously but is now)? They cannot all have been made redundant with no severance pay, surely.
I think I’m all done with these two questions now as no reasonable explanation for this conundrum seems forthcoming.
Anyway, all by the by. I’ll knock your case off my 660,000 that are now using food banks who were not doing so a year or so ago. Any ideas about the rapid decline in fortunes of the other 659,999 who have taken up free food recently (other than the fact that it was not available previously but is now)? They cannot all have been made redundant with no severance pay, surely.
I think I’m all done with these two questions now as no reasonable explanation for this conundrum seems forthcoming.
DEFRA did a study last year into the rise of emergency food aid in the UK - but the government has delayed publication...
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People may not be starving, but there is certainly a rise in malnutrition. In a letter to the BMJ last December David C Taylor-Robinson, (MRC Population Health Scientist) and others said...
"The number of malnutrition related admissions to hospital in England have doubled since 2008/9 .
Furthermore the Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported a decrease in calories purchased and substitution to unhealthier foods, especially in families with young children. Against a backdrop of rising food prices figures from the Trussell Trust show an exponential rise in the number of people being issued food bank vouchers by frontline care professionals.
This has all the signs of public health emergency that is in danger of going unrecognized, until it is too late to take preventative action. Whilst the government has delayed the publication of research it commissioned into the rise in emergency food aid in the UK we can only speculate that the cause is related to the rising cost of living and increasingly austere welfare reforms"
The rise in cases of malnutrition provides some objective evidence that there is food poverty.
http://
People may not be starving, but there is certainly a rise in malnutrition. In a letter to the BMJ last December David C Taylor-Robinson, (MRC Population Health Scientist) and others said...
"The number of malnutrition related admissions to hospital in England have doubled since 2008/9 .
Furthermore the Institute for Fiscal Studies has reported a decrease in calories purchased and substitution to unhealthier foods, especially in families with young children. Against a backdrop of rising food prices figures from the Trussell Trust show an exponential rise in the number of people being issued food bank vouchers by frontline care professionals.
This has all the signs of public health emergency that is in danger of going unrecognized, until it is too late to take preventative action. Whilst the government has delayed the publication of research it commissioned into the rise in emergency food aid in the UK we can only speculate that the cause is related to the rising cost of living and increasingly austere welfare reforms"
The rise in cases of malnutrition provides some objective evidence that there is food poverty.
