My local foodbank barely even gives food, it’s mostly drinks. A typical package would be a box of teabags, a jar of coffee, a large bottle of milk, a bag of sugar, and then just a very small amount of food, usually a tiny bag of pasta, a mini loaf of bread, a packet of cookies and a bag of doritos. That’s it. No protein, no fruit, no veg, and it takes so long to access because you have to get a referral, which means you need someone like the GP or citizens advice to refer you and it takes ages getting them to do that, then you have to wait for an appointment at the food bank, and they have often even been closed on days they’re meant to be open. So all in all it takes 2-3 weeks to actually get to use the food bank, and those cookies, doritos, bread and pasta are somehow meant to last that long. They don’t even last a day. I actually developed nutritional deficiencies and fainted 4 times after living like this for months. That’s why I ask for help getting food here on lemmy, it’s impossible to survive on the food bank. They actually told me they’re supposed to give three days worth of food at a time. I don’t even consider this close to three days worth, and I think it’s ridiculous anyway only giving people three days worth when it takes weeks to get back there again. Not to mention it’s really difficult not being able to choose my own food as my cancer treatment has caused me to develop food intolerances, the food the food bank gives makes me ill but when you’re starving you eat it anyway.
Jesus, I mean to be honest I live in the south east (aka the part of the UK that effectively leeched of the rest of britbong land when we began to enter the end stage of capitalism) and even down here I wouldn’t exactly describe the situation as great, sure you do get actual protein in your food parcels here but it’s only slightly better to be honest, and your certainly not getting enough food to meet your required caloric intake per month that’s for sure.
To be honest I think the government is doing it on purpose, in the place I work at we have more than enough food (for fuck shake I was literally having to squeeze in what I could.) probably so that the proles will be too starved to riot (probably won’t work mind you, believe me the Tsarists tried this in Russia and all it led to was for the peasants and proles to Join the Bolsheviks.) but yeah, in my opinion most foodbanks absolutely have enough food to go around it’s just that the government wants to starve the proles so they don’t have the energy to revolt.
My local foodbank barely even gives food, it’s mostly drinks. A typical package would be a box of teabags, a jar of coffee, a large bottle of milk, a bag of sugar, and then just a very small amount of food, usually a tiny bag of pasta, a mini loaf of bread, a packet of cookies and a bag of doritos. That’s it. No protein, no fruit, no veg, and it takes so long to access because you have to get a referral, which means you need someone like the GP or citizens advice to refer you and it takes ages getting them to do that, then you have to wait for an appointment at the food bank, and they have often even been closed on days they’re meant to be open. So all in all it takes 2-3 weeks to actually get to use the food bank, and those cookies, doritos, bread and pasta are somehow meant to last that long. They don’t even last a day. I actually developed nutritional deficiencies and fainted 4 times after living like this for months. That’s why I ask for help getting food here on lemmy, it’s impossible to survive on the food bank. They actually told me they’re supposed to give three days worth of food at a time. I don’t even consider this close to three days worth, and I think it’s ridiculous anyway only giving people three days worth when it takes weeks to get back there again. Not to mention it’s really difficult not being able to choose my own food as my cancer treatment has caused me to develop food intolerances, the food the food bank gives makes me ill but when you’re starving you eat it anyway.
Jesus, I mean to be honest I live in the south east (aka the part of the UK that effectively leeched of the rest of britbong land when we began to enter the end stage of capitalism) and even down here I wouldn’t exactly describe the situation as great, sure you do get actual protein in your food parcels here but it’s only slightly better to be honest, and your certainly not getting enough food to meet your required caloric intake per month that’s for sure.
To be honest I think the government is doing it on purpose, in the place I work at we have more than enough food (for fuck shake I was literally having to squeeze in what I could.) probably so that the proles will be too starved to riot (probably won’t work mind you, believe me the Tsarists tried this in Russia and all it led to was for the peasants and proles to Join the Bolsheviks.) but yeah, in my opinion most foodbanks absolutely have enough food to go around it’s just that the government wants to starve the proles so they don’t have the energy to revolt.
Those in power would rather throw food in landfill while people go hungry than equitably distribute it.