Summary By Ellen Smirl: Comparative Analysis

In the infamous prose “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” Robert Paarlberg, a Harvard international affairs expert divulges on the ongoing warfare with the issue of sustainability. Paarlberg focuses on how the rise in global starvation increases in less developed nations, but it is often ignored by those in developed countries because of their fixation with the green revolution. He asserts many claims as to why Africa and Asia still have high food deprivation rates, which quite contrary to popular belief has nothing to do with overpopulation. This stems from lack of investment into agricultural infrastructure and investments. His criticism of whole foods shoppers seeks to bring awareness to the issue of world hunger and how the quest to eat organically

In “Schools Out for Summer” by Anna Quindlen she talks about students who can only have a meal at school because their parents are not wealthy enough to feed them at home. Anna states, “And some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people want to tell themselves” (199). She is trying to say that even though the kids do not eat at home they will still say they do. Anna also talks about how the parents of some of these kids go to food drives for families like theirs.

Today’s consumers no longer consider where the food is coming from nor do they understand what it takes to prepare soil, grow food, and its logistic all the way to consumption. Some of his audience may understand the logistic or chain of events from soil to consumption, yet choose otherwise. Berry said: “Many people are now as much estranged from the lives of domestic plants and animals (except for flowers and dogs and cats) as they are from the lives of the wild ones”.

The essay makes sure to explicate why hunger is somewhat unheard of in America. She explains that the parents of the hungry children “loath to talk” about how they struggle .She also gives detailed examples like how it is not typically the “homeless or out of work parents” that they see in food banks but the those who work minimum wage jobs and can't afford to feed their families off that salary. The essay describes how frustrating applying for government assistance can be like filling out twelve pages of forms or being turned down because of new policies.

Could it be because the state is focusing on how much they are exporting and overlooks the deeper problem of hunger within their state? Christina Dreier lives in Mitchell County, Iowa, and is faced with the despair of not having enough food to feed her two growing children. Her plight is so extreme that she must make her three- year- old son go without breakfast, in hopes that he will eat the free breakfast provided by the school so that there will be enough food to feed their family for lunch. Sometimes there’s not even enough food for her to give her kids a snack that is healthy.

some are denied food stamps because of new welfare policies.” , Quindlen identifies the problems that could come along with food stamps. Along with being denied of food stamps, Quindlen addresses the hard process of receiving a food stamp in the quote, “The average length of a food stamp application is twelve often impenetrable pages; a permit to sell weapons is just two.”. This quote also compares the process of getting a food stamp, a necessity to some families, and weapon permit, a “want”.

Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer prizewinning books and “Prudence or Cruelty” was feature in the New York Times in 2013. In “Prudence or Cruelty” it discuss the potential of ridding our society of food stamps to help boost our economy. Children everyday wonder when, not what, their next meal will be. As sad as it sounds, but “5 percent of American households have very low food security” (Kristof 172). This basically means the household can run out of food whenever, and this usually leads to a parent not eating to make sure their kids have enough to eat.

is Looking on the other side of hunger, those who live with wealth and do not share the problems of the poor have actually increased in their prosperity, “The share of the nation 's income going to the top 1 percent of its citizens is at its highest level since 1928.” [This disparity has grown even more in the last decade, since the article was written] Not only have the wealthy increased in their wealth, but as they do it becomes harder to make change “An agriculture bill that would have increased aid and the food-stamp allotment has been knocking around Congress, where no one ever goes hungry.” Because of difference in lifestyle, the people of power believe they have no prerogative to help those in

In a country that wastes billions of pounds of food each year, it's almost shocking that anyone in America goes hungry. Yet every day, there are millions of children and adults who do not get the meals they need to thrive. We work to get nourishing food – from farmers, manufacturers, and retailers – to people in need. At the same time, we also seek to help the people we serve build a path to a brighter, food-secure future.

Community Lunch on Capitol Hill has done an exceptional job at providing food, supplies, and resources to the local food insecure and homeless population. They are able to do this through their rhetoric on social media, which portrays them not as a “homeless feeding program”, but as a community-driven effort that helps everyone. This has proven successful in attracting widespread support from volunteers and food donors alike. Community Lunch has set an example for the fight against homelessness by asserting that the homelessness effort is a community driven effort. The American people need to know that homelessness is an issue that affects everyone and, therefore, is the responsibility of everyone to solve

Not being able to have food, not having enough for the week, and not knowing where to get food for your starving child are all defined in what is known as “food insecurity”. According to the resources, nearly 84 % of client households with children report purchase the cheapest food available knowing that it wasn’t the healthiest option just as an effort to provide enough food for their family. On top of that, Among Feeding America, a federal program, client households with children, nearly 9 in 10 households are food insecure (“Child Hunger”). This is not okay for anyone but most importantly children. According to another source, children are growing and need healthy food sources in order for them to grow into healthy, confident adults.

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 discussions of food insecurity, one controversial issue has been the prevalent misconception of why people are suffering from obtaining nutritious food on a consistent basis. On one hand, Frank Eltman, a writer for the Business facet of the Huffington post, argues that university students are facing food insecurity due to college expenses exponentially rising within the past decade. On the other hand, Adam Appelhanz, a police officer featured in the documentary “A Place at the Table,” contends that due to budget constraints he has not received a pay raise in the last four years, and is now inevitably utilizing a local food bank in order to ensure that he has something to eat each month. Others even maintain that food insecurity is synonymous

Later on, viewers saw that Barbie was at last able to qualify for benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, allowing her a sense of relief. The average worth of a food stamp provides individuals with roughly three dollars a day. Although this money presented Barbie with some comfort, attempting to acquire healthy yet affordable food on such a minimal budget was a challenge in itself for Barbie. Sadly, Barbie is only one of millions of individuals who struggled or are still struggling with these life altering issues to this day. As a critical thinker, I conclude that A Place at the Table demonstrated how world hunger is the origin for environmental and social affairs for America.

This means that healthy food it’s not really that expensive it’s just people making wrong decisions in wrong choices of their eating habits. That means that poor eating habits are just excuses because in some cases it’s not a economic reason. The income gap affects food choices is it in the sense that people are not driven to pick up a healthy organic lettuce or a healthy organic carrots, people that are struggling with money may have stress eating disorder so they look for food stable saturate them and often end up buying some mac & cheese or some frozen dinner plates.” If you’re living from paycheck to paycheck and on a limited budget, you’re probably more likely to skip the organic vegetables and reach for the boxed mac and cheese instead”-Mike Collins.