Decade of Thin.

When a stiff upper lip just isn't sufficient as Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, called for the introduction of state-run food banks after being 'shocked' by the thin hungry of Britain.


A friendlier term quaint, milk for the baby. There not just food banks, but a life line for some. But yes there are the needy among us in society, that meet that daily struggle and are human-beings. Often ordinary people that lead humble existences, need this requirement in a corporate culture that's driven nothing wrong with that. As the use of emergency food aid in grate Britain has dramatically increased over the last decade. The second most common reason was because of low income followed by homelessness, indebted as domestic violence and sustained poverty. These were among the other reasons why people visited. The Trussell Trust blames the rising cost of living, static incomes and changes to benefits, for the dramatic rise in the number of people in need of emergency food. Those opening up new food banks say they are responding to this need that has always existed. But that welfare reform has exacerbated this. But critics say food banks opening up and offering free food only creates more of a demand.

All the produce that's distributed amounts to around five tonnes of food a week, this would have been thrown away. It has not been difficult to find good volunteers, and we have done all this without a single penny of public money.
Robin Aitken was a co-founder of the Oxford Food Bank. He was awarded an MBE this year for his work. Can not see, for the life of me, why the model we have pioneered on Oxford should not be copied across the whole of Britain. The one thing that would surely stop the whole thing in its tracks, is if the dead hand of the State were to get involved and that's not just on perishables. It is striking that the Archbishop's call for state involvement should come in a week when the Chancellor has warned in an Autumn Statement that cuts in public spending will be with us for years to come. In this age of austerity the State has to shirk it shoulders towards the most disadvantaged in society, as not to expand. It is exactly the wrong moment to be talking about taxpayers' money for food banks. Food banks don't 'disgrace' Britain, as Jack Monroe, the food blogger and Guardian columnist - who recently accused David Cameron of using the death of his son Ivan as a front to privatize the NHS - has said .They do no such thing - in fact they do the exact opposite. They demonstrate that our society is still human and conscience-driven and aware of the plight of the underdog and of the collective moral responsibility. 

To do something about hunger, out of need and deprivation.
We should celebrate the fact that we have food banks they show book club still cares in Tune Harvest for the world 2014 - 2015. Robin Aitken was a co-founder of the Oxford Food Bank. He was awarded an MBE this year for his work as commended. There is the notion that chucking public money at them will not make them better - it will merely engulf them in an already over-extended welfare state and we certainly do not need food banks to be enlisted by the Left in a wider debate about changes to welfare. Politicians should butt out. If they want to help, they should encourage people to harness the compassion of their communities to set up independent, sustainable food banks and - while I admire Justin Welby in many other respects - my question to him on this occasion would be in what way would our food bank in Oxford have been improved by state funding. Preference would a smart new office in Whitehall ? Making the consultation mediation process a more responsible stance. 

Earlier this year Lord Tebbit said "there is always a near-infinite demand for valuable goods that are given away free".

He also implied that those left hungry relying for their basic foods on food banks were spending their money on fast food. So book club is here with a fact file about the use of food banks. There are more than 400 food banks are now in operation with around two opening every week. 913,138 people, a third of them children, were given three days of emergency food between 2013-2014, according to the Yrussell Trust which supports food banks in the UK. This is compared to 346,992 people in 2012-2013. In 2011-2012, 128,697 people used food banks - the same number as the previous three years put together. In 2013-2014, 30% of visitors - the highest proportion - said they visited a food bank because of delays in receiving their benefits.A typical food box contains a minimum of three days' nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food such UHT milk, pasta and rice and tins of sauces, vegetables and meat.