Frodo
Member
- Location
- Scotland (east)
What are peoples opinions on Food Banks, why are they suddenly so prominent.
My local town, which is fairly prosperous albeit with the usual areas of deprivation, now has one. My instinct is that this is unnecessary and counter productive.
I live in an area with a substantial soft fruit sector, so unskilled seasonal work should not be hard to find, and is currently filled by hard working Eastern Europeans. I also have friends and neighbours who dumped tonnes of potatoes this summer. One friend who is donating it likes to buy the supermarkets 3 for 2 deals and donate the produce she doesn't want.
Surely the benefits that people receive should be enough to allow people to feed their families in the crisis moments until they return to the workforce. The above situation to me is an unnecessarily broken market.
Am I naive in thinking that we should allow the free market (with a basic government safety net) to feed us and that food banks are just away of satisfying middle class guilt.
My local town, which is fairly prosperous albeit with the usual areas of deprivation, now has one. My instinct is that this is unnecessary and counter productive.
I live in an area with a substantial soft fruit sector, so unskilled seasonal work should not be hard to find, and is currently filled by hard working Eastern Europeans. I also have friends and neighbours who dumped tonnes of potatoes this summer. One friend who is donating it likes to buy the supermarkets 3 for 2 deals and donate the produce she doesn't want.
Surely the benefits that people receive should be enough to allow people to feed their families in the crisis moments until they return to the workforce. The above situation to me is an unnecessarily broken market.
Am I naive in thinking that we should allow the free market (with a basic government safety net) to feed us and that food banks are just away of satisfying middle class guilt.