The UK Needs to Tackle Hunger by Using Surplus Food

The UK’s largest food distribution charity, FareShare, has revealed that only 17,000 tonnes of the 270,000 tonnes of edible surplus food in the supply chain is redistributed to charities each year. As a result, the government is being urged to introduce a £15m fund to address public hunger by preventing edible food from going straight to the landfill, animal feed or anaerobic digestion. The Government Needs to Take Action Ministers are being urged by FareShare to end the inequality that remains in the current system. Producers and farmers face the costs of sorting and transporting surplus food for human consumption. FareShare issued a...