Filed under: hunger
Today I put up a post on All Things Reconsidered about some of the driving forces behind the global
food crisis. Take a look at it here.
Food insecurity, whether global or local, is one of the issues I devote a lot of time to through research and volunteering. For the past 2 years I have been venturing outside Penn’s campus to screen people for food-stamps because it is easy to forget that while Donald Trump’s daughter might be sitting next to you in class (yep, she went to Penn), there are hungry people 2 blocks away.
Here’s the report that Mary Summers of Penn’s Fox Leadership Program published a few years ago. It’s a little outdated now, but the findings and stats helped to convince me that the global food crisis isn’t only happening across the world, but next door too.
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Why are almost half the states more than a quarter over weight?
Comment by Nick August 4, 2008 @ 9:35 pm