Home Office malnourishment policy: taking a leaf from Israel’s book?
It seems the Home Office has been deliberately depriving asylum-seekers of nourishing food:
Food provided to asylum seekers by Home Office contractors is of such poor quality that some people are ending up malnourished in hospital, a report has found.
The paper found that it was difficult or impossible to meet nutritional needs and some people ended up in hospital with nutrition-related conditions. Cases of malnutrition among children and diabetes among adults were identified.
Food poisoning, weight loss and diabetes were particular problems and there were reports of children “crying with hunger”. Some children lost significant amounts of weight and were not meeting their developmental milestones.
A lot of food ended up being binned and when fruit was provided, it was often already rotting and attracting flies. Hairs, mould and insects were found in food and sometimes raw or undercooked meat and chicken were served.
Food such as yoghurt was sometimes provided after it had passed its sell-by date. Particular concerns were raised about infant feeding and parents’ inability to access facilities to sterilise bottles.
Asylum seekers said they knew that Home Office contractors were making profits out of providing poor food for them. “We are the holy cash cow,” said one.
The report found a “sense of cruelty that food is deliberately being used to demoralise and dehumanise”.
This is a shocking, abominable way to mistreat people fleeing persecution in their own countries and seeking shelter and care here.
It reminds me of the way Israel treated the people of Gaza before the current invasion and genocide.
For those who aren’t aware: because Israel controlled all goods entering Gaza, it was able to restrict the amount of food and drink going into the enclave, thereby ensuring that all 2,000,000+ inhabitants were permanently malnourished, in a policy that was intended to make them unable to resist Israeli atrocities.
And now, by denying access to Gaza for food aid convoys, and murdering anybody who tries to take food from those that do get through, Israel has created a famine in Gaza – and people, including children, have already starved to death.
It is cruelty – using food to demoralise and dehumanise.
That’s just how the Home Office has been described – deliberately trying to do the same to asylum-seekers here in the UK.
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