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Liverpool City Region backs Right to Food campaign
Liverpool City Region leaders have called on the Government to make access to food a legal right.
In a joint letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, Acting Mayor of Liverpool and local council leaders have asked for the Right to Food be incorporated into the government’s National Food Strategy.
The ‘Right to Food’ campaign, launched by Fans Supporting Foodbanks, calls for a change in the law to make access to food a legal right for all in the UK, making Government legally responsible to help people suffering from food poverty.
Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram said:
Fans Supporting Foodbanks co-founders Dave Kelly and Ian Byrne MP said:
The National Food Strategy is the first major review of our food system in 75 years and provides government with a real opportunity to fundamentally address the growing crisis of food insecurity and set out a plan for a better, fairer food system.
It is estimated more than 10 million people in the UK are living in food poverty, with ethnic minorities, disabled and older people among those worst affected.
Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the Trussell Trust reported an 81% increase in demand for emergency food parcels from food banks during the last two weeks of March 2020, compared to the same period in 2019.
And over the last five years, the Trussell Trust has also seen a 74% increase in the number of three-day food parcels distributed, with one in seven of those accessing foodbanks in work.
To support the Right to Food campaign, go to: https://www.ianbyrne.org/righttofood-campaign
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