Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label hungry

Hungry in the land of milk and honey?

A place at the table (2012) On one end, the richest economy (second richest lately) has to deal with obesity and life style related diseases associated with abundance, they also have to deal with a quarter of the population who live with food insecurity. Food insecurity refers to people who are essentially are deprived of balanced nutritious food due to their lack of resources or unsure of their meal at their table! The problem of hunger in US had been identified as early as the early 1930s, after the Great Depression. The state launched lunch programmes at schools to ensure children's health- to ensure healthy recruits to send to war! As the years went on, government subsidy went mainly towards corn planters and very little to planters of fruits and vegetables. With the allocation of free food program going mainly towards administration and transportation charges, very little is actually left for food. With the price of nutritious foods escalating, the providers can only provi...