Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food
Graham Riches, "Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food "
English | ISBN: 1138739758 | 2018 | 204 pages | EPUB | 960 KB
English | ISBN: 1138739758 | 2018 | 204 pages | EPUB | 960 KB
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? 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 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. 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, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food.
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