ABSTRACT
Corporate social responsibility is to be found at all levels of the food industry, globally, nationally and locally. It carries a message of partnership and solidarity through building alliances with food charity organizations, cementing the idea of Foodbanks Inc. Foodbanking has taken politics out of hunger allowing the public and governments to believe that the income poor are well looked after by corporately backed food charity. Whilst state responsibility for addressing domestic hunger is off loaded and downloaded to corporate food charity, food banking has proved to be no more than 'a way of uncritical solidarity'. The false promises of solidarity are evident in the corporate capture of food banks with their dependence on the leftover food products of Big Food and supermarkets. Big Food's corporate capture of food banking coupled with the indifference of austerity minded governments which have lost their moral compass questions the idea of solidarity.
