As more Britons rely upon food banks to stay fed as skyhigh inflation is making it difficult for many to eat, one large food bank in London, England, is introducing biometric apps that utilize facial recognition to buy food.
As food prices in the United Kingdom and Eurozone continue to hit obscene levels, so Brits have resorted to eating dog food provided by these food banks, The WinePress reported in December.
Hackney Foodbank in London began trialing this concept last year and has 200 participants voluntarily giving over a scan of their face for food. Now they look to expand the initiative to all purchasers from the food bank.
Any food that I like, I can buy. I’m happy they can help us because everything is expensive now.
Kazeiban, a 64-year-old woman from Cyprus and convert to the facial payment system, said
Hackney has partnered with tech company FaceDonate, that boasts on its website that they work to help achieve the 17 United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. As the name implies, users share a scan of their face to buy food. The platform also allows charities to collect and distribute funds to those in need whilst allowing people and businesses to fundraise and monitor how their donations are spent.
Pat Fitzsimons, CEO of the Hackney Foodbank, says “FaceDonate has cut down our costs, allowed us to deliver services to the entire community and made us much more efficient!”
For the food bank, this new system also brings real efficiencies and cost savings. By giving out digital credit we can reduce the man-hours and expense of collecting, sorting, storing and distributing food.
Fitzsimons told the Londonist.
Another user has said, “I hope Face Donate gets adopted by every food bank across the country.”
The Phone to Food system controlled by Hackney Foodbank and FaceDonate is now primed and ready to rollout at all five of the food bank’s distribution centers throughout London. The app can be used at grocery stores where users have a wider range of access to foods the food bank normally cannot handle. Purchases of alcohol and tobacco are prohibited.
People don’t really want to go to a food bank. There’s a sense of shame around it.
But with FaceDonate, they can buy exactly what they want. It gives people dignity and agency. We want them to take control of their lives and not to be passive recipients of our service.
Fitzsimons added
‘”Number nine,” a staff member yelled as a woman handed over her ticket. She scanned her face, generated a QR code, and in an instant received fresh funds in her FaceDonate account,’ Reuters wrote.
Kaya Akarsu of Hoxton Brothers Food, one of the London shops working with FaceDonate, said in a statement:
It’s very convenient, it’s like a contactless payment but with a QR code. It’s also great for the people who receive it so they can really buy what they need.
Single mother and 64-year-old Kadriye says that app lets her buy Turkish groceries for her disabled daughter, praising the tech and is not bothered by scanning her face.
I can buy my country’s food. For example, cheese, Turkish food. For me, it’s better than taking a tin. Because in my culture, we don’t use much (tinned foods).
I don’t mind that they scan my face. If I’m coming here everybody see me. If I go the shop everybody see me. Why should I hide my face?
She said
Reuters also noted: ‘With more than 1.4 billion people worldwide set to adopt facial-recognition payment technology by 2025, according to Juniper Research, it is a fast-growing industry – but one fraught with privacy risks, digital rights experts say. They say the use of biometric data to unlock help can expose vulnerable groups to data leaks, commercial data exploitation, identity theft and further marginalization.’
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:16-18
Obviously this is not the mark of the beast, but it does not take a genius to see what this food bank is doing is a significant precursor to that ultimate goal.
This is the type of stuff I have been warning would happen and now we are seeing more of it, and will continue to see these types of schemes increase around the world, as more economies crash and populations become desperate.
At some point – and we are closing in on that – we are reaching a point of “max saturation” where the whole global economic system will stop functioning; with central banks performing a massive rug pull on this fake debt-based system they’ve worked to prop-up and ensnare people with. When they pull it the loss of life will be devasting, and most will comply with whatever the government issues them (i.e. social credit score, CBDC, food ID, vaccine passport, internet behavior points, etc.).
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Where as followers and believers of Jesus Christ do we draw the line? The mark of the beast will not just pop up in a day it is a gradual deception to where you get drawn in by a cause, whether it be for food, water, a home, taxes, you name it. Then before you know it the worship part of the mark will be presented as a need to preserve our lives in this system. If you notice in the Bible worship is tied to a king (government or world leader). What did Satan promise Jesus he would give him if he would just bow and worship him, “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” We have to be very wise and discerning in these very wicked days of deception. So the question once again is when do we say NO! Fear not says The Lord!
Philippians 3:15-19 KJV
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”
Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)