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What happened to  Great Britain?  We are in 2018, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, considered the fifth world economy and we have poor people who use food banks to survive. It is absurd. The food banks should not exist. There are more than 100 billionaires in this country. In 2017, the market for the sales of yachts has increased by 14% by the estimates of Berthon sales division. In London, in in the same year, an apartment was sold for about £90 million in a charming area of the city between Hyde Park and Harrods not far from the Bulgari Hotel. This type of property is provided with SPA, valet parking and landscaped garden. These are very few examples of the richness of a country that still houses one of the most important financial centres in the world and where models of great hospitality and organisation were given with the recent Olympics of 2012. Is this the contradiction of modern capitalism? In 2009/10, 41,000 were the people to use the service pr...

   Dianna Smith, University of Southampton and Claire Thompson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Statistics from food banks across England show a frightening rise in the number of people using their services, meaning that more and more people don’t have enough money to feed themselves. Between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017, the Trussell Trust provided 1,182,954 three-day emergency food packages – up 73,645 from the previous year. People affected by food poverty face severe threats to their health and well-being. As well as the stress, depression and anxiety that can result from not having enough money to feed their families, people experiencing food poverty also face a higher risk of obesity , because the only foods they can afford tend to be cheap, sugary, processed and fattening. Some researchers have already mapped out who is using food banks, which is a big step towards understanding the problem. But academics like ourselves are i...