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."