Annually, billions of tons of food are wasted, hundreds of millions of tons are grown for biofuels, food prices and supplies are manipulated on world stock markets, so who needs GM?

Answer, the agro-chemical industry because the real aim is profit not feeding the hungry, yet the media only feed us the former.

The same bias and selective reporting is claiming that all who use food banks are hard-working people who manage their money and have fallen on hard times and can not feed the family, when in reality many had lived well with a too generous welfare system, where living on welfare has given a higher income than working.

They need money-management lessons not food banks, putting having the latest gadgets, booze, tobacco, fashion trivia first and food last, all on welfare and or borrowed money living beyond their means.

I knew a few people who worked for Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) dealing with debt, and was told that their success rate was around 10 per cent if lucky, because people refuse to change their lifestyle, as do the obese, so become a burden on the State.

Many keep having babies despite all the modern contraceptives available, knowing taxpayers will fund their lifestyle, because they had grown up where welfare was very generous, taking up the biggest slice of government expenditure. Yet many who have fallen on bad times have not made a fuss and tried to help themselves, as have most of the 70-year-old plus, who saw real poverty, not what the Archbishop of Canterbury and many media presenters call poverty. Those people base their views more on philosophical dogma than lived reality.

Many who are struggling work with animal and human charities, and as per usual it’s those who have the least to do and give the most, yet it is this which such as the Archbishop of Canterbury and media presenters do not like.

Yet on the other side of the coin, it is the government which encourages this have now now pay later culture, rather than living within your means, and saving like we had to when young, because it is good for growth/GDP with all the money coming in from VAT.

So those who keep harping on about this imagined poverty are not doing the hardworking people, who are genuinely trying to save and pay their way, any good, because they do not fit into the plan which seems to be moving the national deficit from Government to the people, keeping them in the hands of the moneylenders.

D Thomas, Hisomley, near Westbury.