Ken's comment:

>One approach to the issue of hunger, for example, is to treat this as a
>temporary lack of access to food, and to look for a charitable solution
>through food banks.  A slightly more progressive response looks at the
>system of social assistance (inadequate though it is) and
>redistribution.  The more radical analysis sees the problem as a lack of
>opportunity for employment and other means of generating adequate income
>- at least partly attributable to systemic barriers - and looks to
>address those barriers.  This is the more threatening approach because
>it starts to look at the way power is distributed in society, and it
>means actually changing some systems.

I think there is a further step which is to look at the entities that
profit from the current system and seek to address (redress) their power.
For example, the corporations which control the food system from farm
inputs to fast food are constructs which should be not only critiqued but
derailed!
C

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