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Bezig met laden... All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?door Joel Berg
Seven Stories Press (12) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Berg’s examination of the causes and effects of hunger and poverty in America in an accessible style. He interweaves the history of public policies from Kennedy's to George W. Bush's that have tried and failed to eliminate hunger in America with his own experiences as an anti-hunger activist. He perviously worked for the USDA under the Clinton administration, and is now the Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Berg has deep insight into the why the twentieth century's public policies have failed. He identifies a solution to ending hunger as a "three-legged stool" that hinges on affordability, access, and education. He describes an ideal policy as one that would make nutritious foods affordable and geographically accessible to low-income peoples and also provide people with educational resources that explain how to prepare produce and its nutritional benefits.
Hunger activists like Joel Berg criticize supporters of “sustainable” agriculture—i.e., producing food in ways that do not harm the environment—for advocating reforms that threaten to raise the cost of food to the poor.
Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation-- the modern breadline. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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If food insecurity (the new euphemism for "hunger") is such a huge problem, then why are there so many obese African-Americans? Doesn't it show that they are getting more than enough food? What it really shows is that those whose food insecurity situation is bad, but not totally desperate, have to rely on cheaper high-calorie food that is full of chemicals and preservatives.
Why don't inner-city residents buy more vegetables, even organic vegetables? Most inner-city neighborhoods don't have a supermarket, so the people have to rely on convenience stores, that will carry cheaper pre-processed foods, instead of organic vegetables. Also, if you are given a certain amount of money, and have to make it last an entire week, vegetables are rare, and expensive organic vegetables are simply not a possibility. Find out what your state gives food stamp recipients each week to live on, and see if you can do it.
Another problem for inner-city residents is that the various government programs are administered by different agencies, which physically are nowhere near each other. It requires taking time off work, or finding child care, and getting on several buses, in order to go through several different sets of bureaucratic nonsense.
Everyone knows someone who says they have seen a food stamp recipient buying lobster or caviar or something else very expensive with food stamps. That is highly unlikely, because the average inner-city recipient has no access to such items, and benefits are distributed on what look like regular debit cards, to reduce the stigma.
What to do? Among other things, the author advocates putting all hunger programs together into one giant program. He also advocates making free school breakfasts available for all children, to reduce the stigma for children, and making healthy food much more available in the inner city.
This book is a large eye-opener. It is full of practical solutions, and is very easy to read (even with the charts and graphs). It is very highly recommended. ( )