Foodbank is a charity organisation that takes excess food, mostly food that shops have failed to sell which needs to be disposed of but is still perfectly fresh and donated food from individual donors and distributes it to the poor and needy through various agencies who are committed to feeding the hungry.
Modern business methods means that even five minutes before a shop is due to close a late arriving customer should still be presented with a full range of product meaning that shelves must be artificially filled and then that food, no longer complying with the ‘fresh today’ policies adopted by many stores, must be thrown away. It shouldn’t be disposed of through landfill so often it’s sent to biodigesters which then make the gasses produced by decomposing food into electricity, by doing this the store can be proud to be a ‘zero waste’ organisation. By far the most practical and human solution, however, is to redistribute the unwanted food through charities to those who find themselves in need.
These most needy people used to be the homeless and the poorest, most marginal members of society. Unfortunately the need for food which has been donated free of charge has even started to affect families where there is a wage coming in. In Salisbury for example some families are finding that with wages being frozen and hours cut, if there’s only one wage coming in then an entire family has to manage on £800 or less. Once gas, water and other bills like petrol and car insurance have been paid off then they are finding that there isn’t enough left for food to feed the entire family.
One Conservative MP, John Glen, said to the BBC that if families didn’t waste their money and spent it on food first then they wouldn’t have to go without. That’s clear, so what are these working families wasting their money on? Mortgages, heat and light, their fuel to get to their jobs to earn the money and pay the increased taxes that are being imposed upon them by Glen’s government. Some parents will even want to fritter their money away on buying their children shoes and clothes.
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