The author said that Britain is the “most food-obsessed nation in Europe – if not the world” and urged people to undergo a “major lifestyle change in the year to come”.
Mr Self said that the country has become a “foodie’s paradise” in recent decades. However he urged people to “forge a new relationship with whatever we happen to find on our plates” and said that the large number of charity ‘food banks’ in British towns shows that hunger is still a deep-rooted social issue that should not be ignored.
“We really could do with paying a bit less attention to what’s on the end of our forks, and a bit more to what’s at the end of our roads,” Mr Self said.
The author said that food “has become the defining attribute of both class and culture in 21st century Britain”. However he argued that Britons’ love of gastronomy has not come about due to a “refinement of the collective palate”, but rather by people’s desire to be seen as middle-class.

He makes sense. Especially with more people needing help need the help of food banks.

All Self seems to be saying is that perhaps we should be more socially aware...

Is the problem our obsession with food, or Will Self's obsession with class? He seems to have a pan-fried pommes fritte on his shoulder about declining standards of middle class aspiration.

Is the problem our obsession with food, or Will Self's obsession with class? He seems to have a pan-fried pommes fritte on his shoulder about declining standards of middle class aspiration.

The upper middles are always concerned about the middle middles and the lower middles standards.