In the context of that article, it helps to also quote the person in charge of the college that runs the food bank he was talking about.
“It’s a combination,” she said. “To be good with your food you need to be good with your money, and also be able to cook. If you can’t then the food doesn’t go as far as you can get into a very difficult cycle.”
The link between the food bank and the college means that while people referred for assistance receive one-off help without conditions, those getting food over the longer term are asked to take a course, whether in cooking, budgets or job skills.'
So it's not just shoving a box of beans and some packets of instant noodles at people, it's also giving those without the necessary skills the tools to help them get out of the situation wherever possible through education, support, somebody to talk to, free electricity to do some cooking, somebody to help to make sure they don't ruin the food by doing something stupid like running the nutrient dense content of the tin down the sink they're cooking.
And the other side? That's saying it's a waste of time trying to help/it's evil to think of helping to upskill people because they should just give everybody more money and a copy of her book at somebody else's expense