>* Incorrect* Is it ? >Over a million people used food banks in the UK last year. ~1.6% of the UK's ~60M population, seems to fit 'most everyone' even if tho

>* Incorrect* Is it ? >Over a million people used food banks in the UK last year. ~1.6% of the UK's ~60M population, seems to fit 'most everyone' even if those FB users didn't get three squares for themselves and their family, which thanks to the work of the food banks, they do. Apropos the parent's point, the food banks exist. Which means that you live in a society that values you so highly that it will step in to protect you even when the universal welfare system that is supposed to look after you fails to do so and you slip through the cracks. You are therefore one of the luckiest people on the planet. Meta : Incidentally, that 'over a million' figure is only from Trussell Trust, there are other food banks around the UK that do not operate under their umbrella, and as for 'the main reason', meh, certainly the largest single reason reported by users at a shade under 30% which means that 70% of food bank use is for other reasons (though this includes 13% 'benefit changes'). Trussell Trust's reported stats can be found here http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats