Hunger: The greatest scandal and the greatest challenge
January 26, 2013: 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". 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."