Red Cross launch UK food aid
The British Red Cross is starting to collect food for families needing help this winter.
Almost 500,000 needed help from food banks
Nearly 500,000 people in the UK needed support from food banks last year, according to figures from the Trussel Trust.
Juliet Mountford, head of UK service development, said the Red Cross agreed to assist FareShare on the basis of "strong evidence of an increased need for support on food poverty issues".
As reported in The Independent, last month a report shed light on the chronic throw-away culture affecting the food industry, where up to two-fifths of a crop of fruit or vegetables can be wasted because it is "ugly".
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