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Posted by Kerrberr2 Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:55:39 MST
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Have you ever thought about how many starving people we have in America?  If you haven’t, it’s 13.5 million!  That may not sound like many, but when you think about it, that’s about three quarters of the population of Florida.

 

Look at your business place or school or wherever you are and look at all the food that gets thrown away on a daily basis.  At public schools, food is wasted non-stop.  All starving people want is a meal.  With all the food people waste, they could give some to the needy.  I know that might sound gross, but the starving need to get their food from somewhere.  So ask yourself, why do we sometimes see the needy and homeless (starving) digging through garbage cans?  It’s so they can get some food.  We won’t or don’t give it to them do they have to go dumpster diving.

 

It causes me shame to see the American way of life and how we waste so bad.  I mean like I said, there are 13.5 million people starving in the United States and do we care if they go without food?  We only care during the holidays.  Then we don’t even care sometimes.  Granted it might be their fault that they’re starving because they don’t have money or whatever, but it’s also partially employer’s faults because they lay so many people off from jobs.

 

In order for us to tackle the situation at hand we need to have more food drives or find more people who are willing to sacrifice some food.  I don’t just mean us, I mean The United States.  Yes, the boy scouts have an annual food drive and so does the USPS, but that’s not enough.  We need other corporations to have food drives.  For instance, we could have UPS or Fed-Ex or some big corporations have a canned food drive.

 

“In 2002, 34.9 million people lived in households that were food insecure, 1.26 million more people than in 2001. This number includes 13.1 million children.  The number of people living in households where someone was hungry also increased by 300,000 to 9.3 million.  About 567,000 kids live in homes where there children were hungry, 100,000 more that the year before.”

 

As you can tell, hunger (Poverty) is a big issue in America.  Whether it’s the fact that people are living on the streets without food or if it’s the fact that they just don’t have enough food in their houses to support their families.  My point is that we need to help those people out as much as we can, whether it be, as I said earlier, canned food drives or saving some of our lunch for them.  Again, I know that might sound gross, but it has to be done.

 

 

Kathryn Harding

Century High School

January 7, 2008

 

Citations

Garden Harvest Facts about Hunger

www.gardenharvest.org/hungerus0704

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