Across the globe humans face poverty, unemployment, natural disasters, and other life-altering problems. The thing that those problems have in common is causing the pain and misery of food not being on the table. Many people and organizations are fundraising and collecting donations to help those in need. Programs educate and teach people to create self-sustaining food sources. However there is one very powerful and reputable group that has the most power to help the cause of hungry children in the United States and that group is the federal government.
“The school lunch program, begun in the 1970s as a result of bipartisan federal legislation, has been by most measures an enormous success. For lots of poor families it’s become a way to count on at least getting one decent meal into their children, and when it disappears it’s catastrophic,” (page 224) In the essay “Schools out for the Summer” Quindlen writes about the problem of hunger in the USA.
In short, many people around the United States suffer from food instability and hunger. People can’t always help the situations they are in, but there are things almost everyone can do to help the hunger situation in
In the United States there are many children and adults that go hungry, due to financial problems. With the economy and how high cost of living is, it’s hard to provide, food for the family. The results of hunger on children in America are not having the right nutrition, can have serious implication for a child’s physical and mental health. Also food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is particularly devastating to children.
Although this number, which is a not yet a refined estimate, leaves out those who suffer from vitamin and nutrition shortages and other forms of malnutrition (World Hunger). According to the FAO the world produces enough food to provide everyone with about 2,720 kilocalories per person daily. Then why does hunger exist? The whole number of food troubled people who are poorly nourished or are in need of critical nutrients is probably closer to three billion or half of humanity. The harshness of this situation is made obvious by the United Nations’ estimation over a year ago that almost 18 thousand children lose their life, every single day, as a direct or indirect consequence of poor nutrition.
Did you know that 1 in 5 U.S. kids don’t get the food they need every day? This negatively impacts kids’ health and development, but this can also negatively impact them academically as well as emotionally and socially. No Kid Hungry is an organization that is making a difference regarding this problem. No Kid Hungry was founded by Billy Shore and his sister Debbie Shore in 1984. Since then, No Kid Hungry has raised and invested more than $528 million in the fight against hunger, and has won the support of national leaders in business, government, health and education, sports, and entertainment.
Who do you imagine when someone says food insecurity or hunger? Do you imagine someone severely underweight? Or maybe children in third world countries because surely hunger isn 't here in the United states. But, in fact, hunger is here in the United States, the documentary A Place at the Table defines someone who is food insecure as someone who does not know where their next meal is coming from, they have no idea how to manage, find, or afford food.
Hunger in America has changed. It is no longer the long lines for soup and bread that the nation saw during the Great Depression. The face of hunger has become so common in a crowd, that it has become increasingly hard to spot. Sixty percent of all food insecure families have at least one working parent. It is not uncommon for the working class to be in line for food stamps.
6 years ago, I walked into a small restaurant with my best friend, Jillian, and her parents. Once we were seated, I looked around and saw a man dressed in a green camo uniform, constrained in a wheelchair. Upon further inspection, I realized this man was also missing his left arm. My friend’s dad, Chris, left the table, approaching the man. When he reached the table, he reached out towards the man, shaking his hand.
Childhood hunger and malnutrition is a threat that thousands of people face all across the world. Some, even in your hometown. This is a problem that many overlook, and forget about, but it’s something that should concern everyone. America also has hungry children. The people who are struggling, are not just in developing countries.
I have recently found out how horrifying and heartbreaking hunger can be in the world. If our generation doesn’t do anything about this huge problem, who will? Did you know that the majority of hungry people in the world are women? Also, most hunger in the world is in countries who are struggling in war or ethnic conflict. We need to do something about this
Have you ever been in a restaurant and your parents tell you to be quiet because they didn’t want other people to hear you? This is part of the limited amount of free speech in America. I believe we are starting to not be able to speak what’s on our mind without people getting their feelings hurt. In my eyes people should get tougher. Why is America becoming this way?
Ask anyone and they will say that we have done a lot of damage to the Earth, but what have we done to ourselves. Today’s society is full of overweight or obese people and it’s killing us at a fast pace. Someone is considered overweight if they have a BMI (Body Mass Index) between 25 and 29 and obese if there BMI is 30 or higher (World Health Organization, n.d.). That being said at least 2.8 million people die each year because they are overweight or obese (World Health Organization, n.d.).
Eight hundred fifteen million, that’s a big number, right? Eight hundred fifteen million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.1 Small amounts of food are given to starving people everyday, sometimes none of them
Do you ever think about the millions of families and kids that suffer from not being able to have food? You should be very grateful if you have a family to provide food for you because not every kid does. Hunger is a term which has three meanings: •The uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want of food; craving appetite. Also, the exhausted condition caused by the want of food.
