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为生活在贫困中的人们设立的双层食品体系A two-tier food system for people living in poverty

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在兰开夏郡的一个农场,零售加工后被丢弃的废弃蔬菜。摄影:EnVogue_Photo/AlamyWaste vegetables discarded after processing for retail sale at a farm in Lancashire. Photograph: EnVogue_Photo/Alamy

虽然英国儿童挨饿,我们每年却浪费11亿顿饭。推动再分配革命,2023年10月6日)将两个独立问题混为一谈。一个是食物浪费;另一个是国内粮食不安全。如果,正如她所建议的,我们利用前者来解决后者,那么我们只是在制造一个双层食品体系,在这个体系中,生活在贫困中的人们无法通过自主选择获得食物的尊严。

While British children go hungry, we waste 1.1bn meals a year. Bring on the redistribution revolution, 6 October ) conflates two separate problems. One is food waste; the other is domestic food insecurity. If, as she suggests, we use the former to address the latter, we are simply creating a two-tier food system where people living in poverty do not have the dignity of making their own choices.

食物浪费慈善机构如希尔所领导的那一家的工作虽然作为临时补救措施值得赞赏,但从长远来看,它巩固了贫困,并削弱了大企业解决其制造的食物浪费问题的动机。

While the work of food-waste charities such as the that one Hill heads is commendable as a sticking plaster, in the long term it entrenches poverty and removes any incentive for large corporations to tackle the food waste they create.

《联合国宪章》中确立的食物权包括个人通过社会可接受方式获取食物的权利——换句话说,就是拥有足够的收入,以与他人相同的方式购买食物。我们应该提出的问题不是如何利用剩余食物,而是如何确保没有人必须依赖慈善才能吃饭。

The right to food, established in the United Nations charter, includes the right of individuals to acquire food by socially acceptable means – in effect, having enough income to buy it in the same way as everyone else. The question we should be asking is not how can we use up surplus food, but how we can ensure that no one has to rely on charity in order to eat.

低收入人群并不存在是为了让大企业通过慈善捐赠感到自我满足。希尔表示,"不可避免的剩余食物"是在我们的农业系统中产生的。如果这是事实,那么考虑与学校、医院和监狱达成安排,但请不要将挣扎求生的人视为你们废弃物的储备地。

People on low incomes are not there to make large corporations feel good about themselves via charitable donations. Hill says that "unavoidable surplus food" is generated in our farming system. If this is the case, then consider coming to an arrangement with schools, hospitals and prisons, but please don't view people struggling to make ends meet as a repository for your waste products.

在一个粮食过剩的国家,我们应该与食物援助的制度化作斗争,而不是鼓励它。简·米德尔顿 巴斯

In a country with food surpluses, we should be battling against the institutionalisation of food aid, not encouraging it. Jane Middleton Bath