1/4
STOP.

A Scotswoman has starved to death.

So just stop.

We've missed the warning signs.

“It should shake us all to our core that in 2020, someone in Scotland starved to death” @BrianMSloan of @agescotland

It should, but it hasn't.

"Someone in Scotland starved to death."
2/4
2020 records show a Scottish citizen's cause of death was listed as "death by lack of food" for the first time in 20 years.

If you missed it, that's understandable. Only @thetimesscot ran it as an "exclusive" behind a paywall.

"Death by lack of food"
- Scotland, 2020.
3/4
We can't just blame COVID.

We can't just blame Brexit.

This one is on all of us because we've not been listening.

Destitution rose by 54% from 2017-2019 (@jrf_uk)

1 in 7 pensioners lived in persistent poverty before 2020. - (@agescotland)

But we weren't listening.
4/4
Stories of panic buying and shortages are once again plentiful.

While those without try to get by.

But they're not getting by.

Now is the time to act.

Now is the time to be heard.

Now is the time to be the change.

Demand your right to food.

No one will do it for you.

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30 Sep
With yesterday being #InternationalFoodLossandWasteAwarenessDay it is a wake up for all of us to look at how we contribute to, or combat food waste. That said, it's never as simple as it seems.

We've rescued somewhere in the region of 250,000kg's in food since we set up.
250 tons is nothing to sniff at but considering Edinburgh alone wastes 46,000 tons of food a year it's a drop in the increasingly polluted ocean.

As a wise man said "Food is a good" and from where we're standing it's clear we could be converting our waste to abolish hunger. Image
It was this realisation that 2 problems can actually make one solution that inspired us to create EKFH and if applied well, we truly believe our model could be rolled out in every town across the land.

But we digress..

What helps when tackling an issue is identifying the cause.
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