Bishops of Southampton and Winchester support action to end food poverty

9:20am Sunday 27th January 2013 in News

Church leaders back campaign to end hunger Church leaders back campaign to end hunger

CHURCH leaders have backed a nationwide campaign to end malnutrition and hunger in the world’s poorest countries.

The Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign is the largest coalition of its kind in the UK since Make Poverty History in 2005. Already it has the backing of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu.

Now the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Tim Dakin, and the Bishop of Southampton Rt Revd Jonathan Frost have put their weight behind the campaign.

Bishop Tim said: “The world can produce enough for everyone, but millions still go hungry every day. As global citizens Christians are concerned about food-justice.

“We should press for action from our governments and work through voluntary organisations to address questions of land ownership and sustainable development.”

The campaign aims to put pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron and other G8 members to put an end to the main causes of hunger such as using agricultural land to grow food instead of bio fuels and the closing of loopholes that allow big companies to dodge tax in poor countries.

Comments(10)

chunky_lover says...
10:25am Sun 27 Jan 13

This is a good idea , there's too much food in hampshire.

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Lone Ranger. says...
10:42am Sun 27 Jan 13

Could always sell some of the land owned by the C of E and feed the entire world

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bazzeroz says...
10:45am Sun 27 Jan 13

Lone Ranger. wrote:
Could always sell some of the land owned by the C of E and feed the entire world
Ouch! (But true)

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chavfreezone says...
11:22am Sun 27 Jan 13

How many billions does the COE and the Vatican have stashed away??? Doing what exactly?? practice what you god botherers preach.

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Frank28 says...
11:32am Sun 27 Jan 13

Perhaps they should focus on matters closer to home - when you consider the increasing number of people being referred to Food Banks.

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dango says...
11:52am Sun 27 Jan 13

How about we teach these people to stop bloody breeding so much, and that includes the chavs in this country. Pretty soon there will be more people than the planet can sustain. The only way to feed us all is to cut the global population.

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southy says...
12:34pm Sun 27 Jan 13

dango wrote:
How about we teach these people to stop bloody breeding so much, and that includes the chavs in this country. Pretty soon there will be more people than the planet can sustain. The only way to feed us all is to cut the global population.
That will not happen in at lest 2 generations, we are not even half way yet to what the worlds max population can take.
The problem is the Capitalist world and there greed for more and more money and power.

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southy says...
12:36pm Sun 27 Jan 13

bazzeroz wrote:
Lone Ranger. wrote:
Could always sell some of the land owned by the C of E and feed the entire world
Ouch! (But true)
Well religion is a business and are run and controlled by capitalist, So don't expect to much from the church

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mickey01 says...
2:20pm Sun 27 Jan 13

we need to send a few tonnes of condoms over there and that is all so if they stop producing then maybe we can concentrate on our own for a change

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For pity sake says...
5:54pm Sun 27 Jan 13

The Vatican should shoulder most of the blame. They hold fabulous wealth and encourage excessive breeding by prohibiting contraception. Then they plead poverty and expect nations (including ours) to cover the cost of the Pope deigning to visit.
How many millions did it cost to protect the old b*gger when he came here?
Presumably he places similar burdens on poor countries when he visits them.

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