mo4ch:>‘Food insecurity scandal’: UK MPs urge Theresa May to appoint ‘minister for hunger’ | Mo4ch News
PM Theresa May has been urged by MPs to appoint a ‘minister of hunger’ to address the current food insecurity “scandal” in the UK, accusing the Tory government of allowing efforts to combat malnutrition to slip through the cracks.The damning report by the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee reveals that 2.2 million British citizens are living with food insecurity, defined as having “limited access to food… due to lack of money or other resources.”They accused the government of having “failed to recognise and respond” to the problem, claiming there was a “doughnut-shaped hole” in their efforts to meet the UN’s goal of zero hunger and malnutrition by 2030.Also on rt.comPriorities? Only 14 MPs showed up to debate ‘extreme poverty’ in the UKMPs cited UNICEF figures that found around one in five (19 percent) children, under 15, in the UK are living with an adult who is either “moderately or severely food insecure.”The committee has concluded that May’s government should “appoint a mi…