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This Is Why

Cost of living: The price of hunger

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Long before the recent economic woes hitting the pound, mortgages and the price of essentials, a survey in April from The Food Foundation charity revealed nearly two and a half million people had said they’d not eaten for a whole day because they couldn’t afford or get access to food. Those numbers will now be much, much higher.

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson, we examine a snapshot of what is happening in the supply chain - from farm to table - and its impact on all those in it.

Guests: Anna Taylor, executive director at The Food Foundation charity; David Batterbee, a sheep and beef farmer in the Peak District; Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association; and James Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores.

Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Interviews producer - Alys Bowen
Editors - Philly Beaumont and Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:10.0

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0:14.0

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0:22.7

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0:30.0

Pain in my hip. I keep feeling dizzy. I'm getting migraines more often.

0:39.6

There's another way to contact your GP practice by simply sending your symptoms and requests

0:45.2

through their website or the NHS app. We're delivering an NHS fit for the future.

0:51.7

Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? Oh, just tight pain in the neck. How many of us truly know what it is like to be hungry? To wake with an empty belly and go to bed with the same. Some days I go without food at all when I'm at work, I just won't eat because I haven't

1:11.3

got the money to go out and buy it.

1:13.0

So what am I meant to do?

1:14.2

The answer?

1:15.2

Many more than you probably think.

1:17.4

Like I've lost three and a half stone since December.

1:23.5

It's just so hard having to get up every day when put a brave face on things, when all I'm

1:28.9

doing on the inside is just falling apart.

1:31.7

In April, long before the budget in all but name, the collapse in the value of the pound,

1:37.6

the hike to mortgages and the price of essentials, 4.6% of households, that's almost 2.5 million people,

1:45.8

said they'd not eaten for a whole day because they couldn't afford or get access to food.

1:51.1

More than 7 million said they'd gone without food at some point in the previous month.

1:57.1

Those numbers will now be much, much higher.

2:00.7

We had about 7.3 million adults, 2.6 million children,

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