FactCheck: are food banks plugging the benefits gap?

[Sandman]

The number is rising by the week, 500,000 heading towards a million,

at the present rate the one million mark will be reached by Christmas,

thanks to ebenezer IDS, are we going back to the days of a Christmas

carol, we will know it's gone wrong when we get food parcels from Africa.

 

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-food-banks-plugging-the-benefits-gap/13606

[Briar]

Dear Sandman,

I am not sure I understand from this what is actually going on - do
you mind explaining please ?

Briar#

> http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-food-banks-plugging...

[Sandman]

Exactly what the link says Briar, the number of people who need food hand

outs has doubled in a year, more and more people finding it hard to put food

on the table.

[Briar]

Sandman,

gosh. This is hard to swallow. I mean, we have, those of us old
enough to have, lived through harder times than this. During WW2,
when all our food imports were sent to the bottom of the oceans by the
German U-boats, we did not get free food handouts. Even in the east
end of london, we had in our back yards some chickens, some hutches
with rabbits. Us kids were mobilized to gather waste leaves from
under the barrows in the street markets, to give the animals something
to eat, and in return we got eggs and meat. People these days have
gone soft and lazy - they sit there sucking up all the trash on the
telly and cant be bothered to get up and go out and do something to
get food for their families!

We are not the people who fought alone against a bigger and better
armed enemy, and beat him soundly. We are not longer the scrauny
necked chickens that Churchill praised for standing up against the
biggest bully in Europe, and winning.

Over this last year, on my small island west of Scotland, as the
prices of foods in the shops have staggered to staggering heights,
people, young and old, have started to take over small bits of land,
with and without "permission" from anyone, and to plant seeds and to
grow fresh food for themselves and their neighbours. Young ladies,
like my Daughter, have borrowed fishing tackle and gone fishing, and
brought home salmon and trout from the freshwater lochs and burns, and
mackeral from the sea-lochs. The shops are moaning about the decline
in trade, but the people are saving their money and eating better than
before! It is like a quiet revolution going on here.

Those too frail and old to fish or dig are looked after by the others
- with vegetable gardens it always seems that everything comes up at
once, so they give lots away.

This is just one of the many benefits of living in an intact
community. I urge the Urbanites to do what we are doing to overcome
the economic collapse.

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