THROUGHOUT the coronavirus crisis, every worker across the food sectors has provided a vital contribution to feeding the nation. Their work has been essential in keeping our country going during this pandemic.
Yet despite working day and night, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year and across the length and breadth of the country, many food workers are shamefully being priced out of the very products they produce.
The cause of the country’s food poverty scandal is not a lack of food to go round.
It is because of a broken, failing and quite literally deadly economy, which Covid-19 has exposed. As shown by the fact the poorest and the low paid are two-and-half times more likely to die from the virus.