ABSTRACT
There is an urgent need to change the conversation from one of corporate food charity and food safety nets to fair income distribution and 'joined-up' public policy informed by collective solidarity and the human right to adequate food. With food banking present in all 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OCED) countries debating such a change of conversation would vary widely. Since 1981 when food banks first crossed into Canada from south of the border, by 2015 all OECD member states had established food banks in one form or another. As the corporate capture of charitable food banking has become an institutionalized and publicly accepted response to domestic hunger, Samuel Moyn's human rights analysis has particular resonance. Such rights talk challenges civil society and its Non-governmental organisations to become the catalyst or social animateur for changing the public conversation from food as charity to one of rights and justice.
