Visiting a Food pantry is not fun, especially if you are the recipient. Standing in line at a community kitchen can be humiliating. There is a better way, and here is a video we found energizing.
National Geographic’s Stephanie Sinclair captures images of hunger in the Bronx. Moving. Watch this
How did we get here, America? How did our relationship get so broken? And where do we go now? Starting
Hunger in America is not only counter intuitive but it continues to confound, baffle and upset. Thought hunger was rural? In inner cities alone? “Tucked away in a discreet office at Brooklyn College’s Student Center, beyond the pool tables and wide-screen TVs where her classmates congregate, Rebecca Harmata discovered a lifeline.” A Food Pantry
In his 10th Anniversary edition of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Michael Pollan reports that over the last decade, much about the
Starting with the premise that Americans’ most important relationship is with their nation, Joel Berg’s second book, America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, makes a case for how we must both stop blaming the nation’s problems solely on “the politicians” or “the system” and take personal responsibility to solve them.
Its mind boggling that over 50 million Americans will not know where their next meal is coming from. Is that really true? Food insecurity seems both color blind and disrespectful of geography. It affects the young, the working, the retired and the disabled. It’s in our rural areas and in our cities. In fact, there is not a single county in America that is immune from hunger.