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There is a tendency in the research literature to look at the formal indicators of quality of life, which are somewhat abstracted from the day-to-day lives that we all lead. We recognised that that is a major gap in understanding people’s lived experience.
Governments also do not spend as much on energy to produce what they do as we spend in order to live our lives, and they tend not to spend great amounts of money on feeding people.
That cannot be right when too many of our people are living in food poverty. The fact that people in our country—in Scotland—are living without enough food to eat is a disgrace.