Local Food Crisis Receives Grassroots Disaster Response

Come one and all to the City Courthouse on Monday, May 26,2008, starting at 9am, when Homeland Food Security will respond to the disaster that is insufficient food security in our city by accepting and distributing 'surplus' food to those in need.
Below is the disaster alert distributed by Homeland Food Security:

HOMELAND FOOD SECURITY DISASTER ALERT

Whereas, the economic systems intended to provide security of person in this country are collapsing with those of other fossil fuel dependant nations, thereby creating barriers to food accessibility for many people in Victoria,

Homeland Food Security declares a state of emergency.

Henceforth, all pre-consumer food waste will be re-distributed free of charge to those in need.

Supermarkets and other food retailers are instructed to no longer place unsalable food into dumpsters, but to allow volunteer food security workers to collect the food for redistribution.

All citizens are encouraged to volunteer for Homeland Food Security by approaching supermarkets, requesting food and distributing it to those they determine to be in need.

This is an urgent state of emergency, and if retailers cannot be convinced of this, volunteers are instructed to liberate food from the dumpsters behind the supermarkets.

Countless tonnes of safe, nutritious food are being sent to landfill every day, while thousands of Victorians lack access to a proper diet. This food would be more than sufficient to deal with the growing food crisis that is occurring in our city.

Food is a basic human right, yet our current economic infrastructure has proven ineffective at ensuring the protection of these rights. Thus, this state of emergency shall remain in effect until such time everyone in this city has stable access to a proper nutritional diet.

In the meantime, all citizens of Victoria are requested to assist in the distribution of food in whatever way possible, and NO MORE EDIBLE FOOD SHALL BE THROWN AWAY!!!