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Speaker 1: More than a quarter of kids are struggling for food.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Selles told us yesterday. More than the

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Speaker 1: quarter of kids are struggling for food. They talk of

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Speaker 1: food security. It's bad, according to the Sellis, and it's

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Speaker 1: getting worse. Are they telling us over a quarter of kids?

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven percent of kids to be precise, can't get food?

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Speaker 1: Now the definition they use is the United Nations one

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Speaker 1: people having access to safe and nutritious food towards a

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Speaker 1: healthy life. Now, that's the problem with people like the

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Speaker 1: Sellies quoting groups like the United Nations. What the UN

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Speaker 1: mean in that circumstance is the sort of food security

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Speaker 1: you have in Gaza I eat none, or floodplain regions

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Speaker 1: or drought prime regions. That definition is not designed for

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Speaker 1: wealthy First World countries, of which we are one. So

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Speaker 1: I feel the Selles are misinterpreting what the UN means

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Speaker 1: and using it for political purposes, i e. The idea

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Speaker 1: that we can't get access to food. They then claim

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Speaker 1: or make some claims around cost, which is of course

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Speaker 1: different to access, although I suppose technically cost can prevent

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Speaker 1: access in the sense you can't afford it. They cite meat, dairy,

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Speaker 1: food and vedagetables as part of what's gone wrong. But

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Speaker 1: just quickly they argue, and this is the really dangerous

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Speaker 1: part that the food we sell to the world, This

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Speaker 1: is their push, the food we sell to the world

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Speaker 1: should be prioritized first to locals. Here they don't for

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Speaker 1: a moment suggest who would pay for that, although I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing they think the government. Yet again, so the major

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Speaker 1: income earner for the country should be adjusted until we

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Speaker 1: all get the meat and butter that we want. Is

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Speaker 1: that what they're saying? Anyway? They claim on dairy, meat

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Speaker 1: and veg dairy, yes, we know why. That's actually good

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Speaker 1: for the country. Meat, well, that can be expensive, doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be that expensive, and fruit and vegetables is

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Speaker 1: actually not as they claim up in price. In fact,

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Speaker 1: if we look at the latest numbers, a lot of

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Speaker 1: it's down, and any given season, fruit and vegetables can

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Speaker 1: in fact be a bargain of course, So the upshot

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Speaker 1: of their plea is it is as always driven by

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Speaker 1: a motion, not fact. And to be blunt, I don't

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Speaker 1: actually believe in excess of a quarter of all kids

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Speaker 1: in this country don't get food. Do you believe that?

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that twenty seven percent of kids in

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Speaker 1: this country don't get access to food. Part of it,

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Speaker 1: of course, will be bad parenting and bad choices. To

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Speaker 1: solve a problem, you see, if there isn't be a

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Speaker 1: problem at all, you need fact and an understanding of

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Speaker 1: the fact, and logical, sensible solutions, not a mode of

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Speaker 1: clickbait alarmism that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. For more

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