ABSTRACT
Solidarity has even been employed by the Global Foodbank Network in building its worldwide franchises. The right to food matters because it is an expression as well as a means of bringing about collective solidarity. It moves beyond charity and the corporate donation of 'left over' food and engages issue of moral, legal and political commitments and obligations. The chapter argues that the conventional and rhetorical idea of solidarity as the moral driver of corporate food charity as an effective responder to widespread and long-term domestic hunger needs urgent reconsideration. The solidarity which informs the human right to adequate food is both critical and collective. In the food banking world it is certainly a moral and pragmatic response to persistent domestic hunger, but also contains a self-interested quality. The right to food moves beyond charity and the corporate donation of 'left over' food and engages issue of moral, legal and political commitments and obligations.
