Hunger: The greatest scandal and the greatest challenge

(Vatican Radio) The scandal of hunger in a world where there is enough food for everyone. That's the moral message at the heart of a major new anti-hunger campaign that has been launched in Britain by 100 leading charities including the Catholic development agency, CAFOD.
The Executive Director of CAFOD, Chris Bain, spoke to Vatican Radio's Susy Hodges about the new campaign entitled "Enough Food for Everyone IF".

Listen to the extended interview with Chris Bain:

Bain says "one of the biggest crises" in our world is that of hunger but points out that it needn't be that way. "The simple fact, he continues , "is that there is enough food for everybody but it's just unevenly shared." He says this is "the central moral message" of this latest campaign, because "this is one problem of the world that we could solve if there were enough political will. We can feed all the people, it's just the system that's wrong."

Bain says "the moral case here is so strong" that he believes this campaign really can make a difference by successfully appealing to public opinion. "I believe," he continues, "there will be enough public outrage and scandal about what is going on that they will put pressure on governments, put pressure on companies and we can create change, we can do it."

Bain says "We can work together, the churches, the civil society and all people of good will." That's because hunger "is an issue that is central to human life" and the targets they are setting out to achieve in this campaign are realistic ones: "They are not pie-in-the-sky," he says. "This is an achievable thing."