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Comment by ArtDev

8 hours ago

In America, we just let people go hungry while grinding the excess crop back into fertilizer.

We let people go hungry? This is really not a problem today.

  • According to non profits, 1 in 7 Americans, 1 in 5 American children:

    https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america

    • In the site says “FACT - 100% of Counties - Hunger exists in everywhere – no community is untouched”

      What I pretty much suspected. But that in USA 20% of children don’t get enough? That is a big TIL for my ignorance. A sister comment states some child eat only at school. Boy I thought (in 2 figure percentage) was only 3rd world.

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  • yes, it very much is. plenty of school age children go hungry, and the school district I used to work for had a major program to make sure poor kids and "Children in transition" (i.e. homeless) were fed at least a good breakfast and lunch.

    Given the direction of public school funding, and the sentiment of MAGA shitheels, I expect the problem to worsen.