Economic impact of hunger affects all Americans

Brandeis University ^ | 5-Jun-2007 | Laura Gardner

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the info on Sodex—I had never heard of them and there was NO mention in their release that the company behind the foundation sells...FOOD!

[Kozak]

We should give each of those 35 million a unicorn to ride to the leprechaun’s pot of gold.....

[Larry Lucido]

Hmm, the media must not be too optimistic about the 2008 elections. I mean, shouldn’t the homeless and hungry be packing for their next 8-year vacation, like the one they took from January 20, 1993 to January 19, 2001? Maybe a nice cruise this time.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Not just food my FRiend - processed food Mostly.

[mtbopfuyn]

Incidentally, this homeless guy isn’t completely disgusting. He’s changing his clothes and bathing somewhere on a regular basis...

Wait around until his day is over and see if he doesn't drive his beemer to his 4/3 brick home.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Also, as a side note - SODEXHO works hand in hand (at the corp. I work for), with a company called "AMKO" Short for American/Korean. They provide cleaning services with immigrant employees from guess where... Asia/Mexico and the Caribbean.

There are a lot of dots to connect there but I am diverted to other areas of concern and haven't look real hard yet at this particular set of dots.

Happy hunting if you go for it.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I find it difficult to believe that a significant percentage of the American people are hungry. Government food stamps, WIC, food banks, church and charity distribution and soup kitchen programs search out for the hungry. I agree that some mentally ill, addicts, drunks, etc. are probably the vast majority. I occasionally hear about Veterans with mental problems that are hungry. That saddens me the most.
In one community in Maryland were I used to live, on Saturday morning you could see the people lined up to collect their free food from a food bank. Most were obese and some put their food in expensive cars when they drove off.

[carola]

I don’t believe that 35 million Americans are hungry every day because they don’t have enough money to buy food. I do think it’s possible that they spend their money unwisely on food and other things. I also wonder how many of the 35 million watch cable TV everyday and talk on their cell phones.

[Kenton]

They also provide prepared food services for large cooperations.

They run the cafeteria at the Fortune 500 where I work...

[ClaireSolt]

This, like many perennial issues, is something that has been addressed many times and in many ways. Try going to a soup kitchen and you will see they feed all comers and have surplus food available to take home. Liberals keep exploiting the same conditions over and over without ever assessing the results of all of their feel good programs.

[Clam Digger]

What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty.

[sergeantdave]

Simple. When a Republican is in office people are starving and dying in the streets. When a rat takes over, manna from socialist heaven fills the bellies of the welfare..oops...starving poor children.

[Sherman Logan]

While thirty-five million Americans feel the physical effects of hunger each day.

The 35M number comes from studies that this number of Americans had sometime in the previous year been unsure where their next meal was coming from. It is also sometimes called "food insecurity."

Even a liberal ought to be able to tell the difference between this definition and 35M "feeling the physical effects of hunger each day."

[Pharmboy]

I do volunteer work at a church soup kitchen in northern NJ and the first time I went there I could not BELIEVE who showed up...a significant number of middle class people!

[ClaireSolt]

Why not? I know a smart old guy who eats there twice a day and refers to it as his social life. He amassed $350,000 to pass onto his heirs that way. He’s taken me, and lots of the patrons come in their work uniforms. But it makes the churchies feel so good to say that they take their children once a year to serve the homeless. /s

[The Great RJ]

Look at the poorest place in the US, the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, while you see malnutrition it is not due to lack of food, but rather due to a diet that consists mostly of junk food and chronic alcoholism. The largest markets for “snack foods” in this state are the Indian reservations.

[Rte66]

I don’t.

[DPMD]

Are these 35 million people “feeling the effects of hunger” contained within the 40 million people without health insurance in the US? If we play our cards right, we can separate one group from the other to make it seem there are at least 75 million people in the US on the verge of extinction, unless we start coughing up megataxes and soon. Of course, it’s also important that the number of affected people never dwindle so that the tax can always continue growing. Then there are the millions - who knows the number - of people in the US who have no home heating, and the millions with no home to heat, and the millions who...

[art_rocks]

I know some very well educated and motivated men who go hunger almost every day. I want to start a relief fund for those men. Those men going to Ranger School.

Just need help with a name and motto.