Food Bank Nations - Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to FoodPaperback
Food Bank Nations - Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to FoodPaperback In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food,…
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Food Bank Nations - Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to FoodPaperback
In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty.
It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral,