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The UK government should ensure everyone’s right to food rather than expecting charities to step in and fill the gap," Kartik Raj, Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch, said. [74] In June 2023, The Trussell Trust that owns more than 1,200 food banks in the UK estimated 11.3 million people faced hunger over the course of one year. [75]
The UK was reported to be among the worst affected among the world's advanced economies. In 2021, the UK's inflation was less than that of the US, but high US inflation was not generally experienced as a cost-of-living crisis due to the stimulus cheques that had been distributed to American households. [8]
A 2000 report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimated that 4,000,000 people lacked access to a healthy diet, [33] while a review of EU food and health policies estimated that food poverty was far higher in the UK than any other EU member state.
The Environment Agency, a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), defines 'environmental inequality' as follows: 'To observe or claim an environmental inequality is to point out that an aspect of the environment is distributed unevenly amongst different social groups (differentiated by social class, ethnicity, gender, age ...
In 2022, domestic food waste in the UK was at 6.4 million tonnes. [1] By 2024, bread (900,000 tonnes) and potatoes (700,000 tonnes) were still the biggest source of household food waste in the UK; these were followed by milk, left-overs, drinks, pork, poultry, carrots and chips (fries). [62] Lettuce and fruit were also seen high on the list. [63]
Inequality in daily living conditions stem from unseen social structures and practices. [1] This systematic inequality is produced by social norms, policies, and practices that promote the unfair distribution of power, wealth, and other social resources, [1] such as healthcare.
Early investigation into inequality in the UK centred on the role of diet. The work of John Boyd Orr was influential. In Food, Health and Income he examined diet in relation to income. His conclusion was that "as income increases, disease and death rate decrease, children grow more quickly, adult stature is greater and general health and ...
The UK has rarely been self-sufficient in terms of food supply. In 2023, the country was 54–60% self-sufficient in food. [4] [5] In 2022, the country produced enough sheep and milk to be self-sufficient, and almost enough poultry, eggs and cereals, but other foods, such as rice, tomatoes and exotic fruits, had to be imported. [6]