The whole thing is total b.s. The local tv station just had this “food insecurity” and “food desert” thing on my hometown of La Crosse, Wisc. If you go to La Crosse, I’ll guarantee you’ll see few starving wraithes standing on the street corners begging for a cup of gruel. You will see quite a few very “well-fed” citizens.
Appearances can be deceiving. The poor are often overweight because their diets are carbohydrate heavy, so “fat but malnourished”. Likewise, a lot of people are loathe to take government handouts, knowing their steep price in the loss of personal character; especially true because there are often time limits on such aid. That is, you can only have it for a fixed length of time, and only once, is sometimes true.
This is another good reason to set up church food banks, because it is “friends helping friends” more than charity, as well as people contributing work in exchange for aid.