6月14日BBC聽力：食物平安題目困擾澳大利亞
It's hard to imagine that there are a lot of Australians worrying every day about where the nextmeal is going to come from. This year's Hunger Report has been released, showing one in sixAustralians experienced exactly that over the past year. The nation's largest food relieforganization, Foodbank, says most welfare and community groups can't keep up withdemand.Rachel Brown visited one of Foodbank's warehouses in Melbourne. So in front of us,what you can see there, all that comes from food drives or something from Coles or Safewaythey've got enough or too much of. As volunteers at Foodbank's Yarraville warehouse inMelbourne's west are being given sorting instructions. Matt Prince walks me through thewarehouse aisles heaving with food from corporate donations, manufacturers or producenot fit for export. There are perishables, frozen and chilled goods，fruit and vegetables. So wego to the Melbourne markets three times a week and source anything that they might havethat's excess produce that they don't want to take back with them. And produce from a dealwith big farming families. We are paying them a a reasonable price to actually give us theproduce that would usually go into landfill or you plough back into the ground because theycan't sell it to large supermarkets because of size, shape，blemishes，those kinds of things. Sonow we know at certain times of the year that we'll have carrots in the warehouse, we'll havepumpkins, we might have potatoes and tomatoes. Now agencies can kind of bank on that we'llhave certain produce at certain times of year. This food is trucked out to welfare agenciesand community groups to help feed more than 644,000 people nationally. Low-income families,pensioners a lot of children going hungry as well. I read the face of hunger is really changing.Yeah it definitely is. They're saying there's more Generation Ys gonna be affected by foodinsecurity now. but we've definitely seen over the last kind of 10 years a big change from thatperson that people traditionally thought was homeless person on the street to what it is now.
Foodbank's marketing manager Paula Bantock says Australia's food insecurity is now at crisispoint. One in six have experienced the need to call on food relief at least once. What's alsoscary about this number is 28 percent are experiencing this on a regular basis. And the surveylooked at what kind of implications that has emotionally，mentally，physically.The flow-oneffects, yeah they're massive and they're never ending. So motivation, feeling outcast fromsociety, feeling a loss of self-esteem, obviously health and wellbeing. And despite this massiveoperation that's going on around us at the moment,it's still not meeting demand. Nounfortunately not. We've also found in the survey that nationally, a number of charities arehaving to turn away people. To give you an example, despite this factory pumping out theequivalent of more than 17 million meals for Victorians last year, relief agencies are still havingto turn away nearly 7,000 hungry adults and children each month. We're about thirty percentbehind on meeting the demand. What we ask for is our food donors and all the generoussupport from the manufacturing, farmers, primary producers, is that we increase donationsand call on their support for that to try and meet that gap. Do we need to rethink the Australiadeals with waste for example?What chefs or what supermarkets would consider waste?To behonest, in Australia, they've been very proactive in this area for the last 10, 20 years.Supermarkets are donating that food and there are other charities that collect
that food; Frontline. And now the fact that food insecurity is on people's radar. There's evenmore reason why they're not actually wasting that food. From a perspective, it's a callout tothe food industry. If they are running out of stock that is close to best before date, close touse by date we can absolutely use that product. Don't throw it away, we need it.
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