In the Richest Country in the World, 1 in 5 People Can’t Afford to Eat
Dueling studies have revealed something strange in the behavior of Americans. While one study published by the Natural Resources Defense Council 
(NRDC) reveals that Americans waste 40 percent of their food supply, a second Gallup poll reveals that one in five Americans can’t afford to eat on a regular basis.
These two studies do more to highlight America’s inequality gap than any other. While one set of Americans picks at their food at home, and at fine dining establishments, another set of Americans doesn’t have enough to eat.
Gallup reports that based on the responses of 177,662 Americans from January to June, one in five adults didn’t have enough money to buy food on more than one occasion in the last year. The data suggests that 18.2 percent of Americans have an issue with food security.
Conversely, according to NRDC’s study:
- Americans trash 40 percent of our food supply every year, valued at about $165 billion;
- The average American family of four ends up throwing away an equivalent of up to $2,275 annually in food;
- Food waste is the single largest component of solid waste in U.S. landfills;
- Just a 15 percent reduction in losses in the U.S. food supply would save enough food to feed 25 million Americans annually;
- There has been a 50 percent jump in U.S. food waste since the 1970s.
Also intermixed in this is the drought, which will undoubtedly impact American consumers, and the way Wall Street speculators manipulate food markets. Considering that, it is doubtful that food security will improve for the one in five Americans already impacted.
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If this is the ‘richest’ country in the world, how come there are so many people out of work, starving to death, and food stamps are being cut, as I type?
The real deal is this; these rich corporate bastards are ‘hoggin’ the money for themselves and sending jobs overseas for cheap labor! The rich get richer; while the poor get poorer…this is the amerikkkan way! How come these greedy bankers can give themselves bonuses; while they people that work for them get NO RAISES! THAT’S COMMUNISM!!!
Over 35 million+ people go to bed hungry everyday and night, in amerikkka! What happened to the feed-the-hungy programs? They were cut-off by the rich and greedy! What’s happening to the food stamp programs? They are being cut off by the rich and greedy! What’s happening to this country? It is being controlled by the rich and greedy!
This country is becoming a communistic country. These caucasoid devils can’t talk about china, japan and the other communistic countries because amerikkka is just like them. Look at these caucasoid males and females trying to control the rights of a pregnant female to have a baby, even tho it was done by rape! Look how these caucasoids control these gas prices…one day it’s low; the next hour it has gone up 20 cents! We are being controlled, and don’t know it! We have no control over these politricksters WE PUT IN OFFICE! We don’t vote on laws; they do! THAT’S COMMUNISIM!!!
WAKE UP Y’ALL!!!
@Derrick. If we scrutinize the history of this country we can observe that this nation was formed by some very unscrupulous, ruthless sociopaths. Their agenda was, and their descendant’s agenda has always been, and is, the same.
Which is to enrich their kind. They are not concerned about the welfare of anyone other than their “elite” few. They have (possibly), been in the business of owning and controlling massive portions of the earth and it’s inhabitants for at least a millennium. It is my contention that they are the kind of “people” who consider themselves the rightful “kings” of the world, and just like the kings of past and present they rule with an iron fist! They have gathered from around the world, and hold large caches of information on how to control the masses as they do their will. They have early learned that lying, conniving, threatening, attacking, running cons, murdering, and keeping secrets will assure themselves a future of power and great wealth for a millennium to come!
The people have been (purposely) left disoriented, misguided, mis-taught, and utterly confused, among many other negative social issues. This makes it very difficult to bring down the actual culprits of our world’s dispair. Most of us are basically left “barking up the wrong tree”, when it comes to pinpointing and solving our multitude of world humane problems. If the people were to understand who/what they are up against we might have a chance, but it has been the great efforts of the “elite few” to keep the masses in confusion! Psychological tools are the best at controlling the human species and ‘our’ “elite owners” have access to the greatest minds!
If you can imagine how outmatched the surfs and commoners were during the reign of the great ancient kings, then you can understand that just because we have made great advances, those kind of rulers and their rules still exist in a more subtle fashion, and in some places in just as blatantly as in the past. There are many psychological issues which makes ruling great masses of people easier but none more significant than the continuance of ancient religious beliefs. The elite count on this and they make sure it is vastly promoted and maintained. As I’ve said, it takes great organization and strategy to control great masses of people and these tyrannical “would be Kings” have always had the keys.
In order to change for the better, the condition of the citizens of the US and the world, the people must know who their actual enemies are, but it is proven by the way the people respond to every day issues such as politics that they haven’t got a clue and because they are subjected to gross psychosocial attacks by the culprits they are unaware of, they (the combined masses) will never understand of know!
I presume that the percentage of people who truly understand the actual, vastly confusing, structured assault we’re up against is painfully minute!
I don’t hate…I MOTIVATE!!! I give credit where it’s do, and you posted a mouth full of Truth!
Let’s not leave out that, a lot of so-called negroid leaders are still playing second fiddle for caucasoids. Most people are not aware that the slave maker USED different enslaved people for their economic involvment, during our forced enslavement.
Most people THINK caucasoids ‘freed’ us during the ‘underground’ railroad, BUT what they don’t know is that, these caucasoids were PAID BY OTHER CAUCASOIDS because these so-called ‘freed’ men and women could be USED in another way!
AFTER WE WERE ‘FREE’ WE STILL DIDN’T HAVE ANY RIGHTS!!!
MLK was used by caucasoids, Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and many other so-called leaders of yesterday were USED by cuacasoids. Nothing has changed today, because the naacp, cbc, screachas, and other bootlickin’ negroids are still CONTROLLED by caucasoids to keep us in this slave-like condition.
Most negroids suffer from MENTACIDE, which is MENTAL SUICIDE!!!
We still have enemies within our culture, that need to burn by the woodpile with their caucasoid counter parts.
Well said !!!
The word communist means commune or community. It is those same bastards that you rant about that gave you their difinitantion. I am not defending communist. What I am defending is the fact that many of our beliefs and hatred is learned and taught too us by the very bastards of your rant, rather then through experience with those who lived in communist countries. Let us not forget that our own form of Goverment has not delivered and is facing the same socio-economic ill, if not worst, then many of the communist countries. Your knowledge is as limited as your perception if you think the that the devil has a color, rather then an ism. I pray for your freedom. Not the freedom to go too the store when one please, but your liberation from prejudice, bigorty, hatred, class war so that the truth may be revealed to you. In the words of Christ: ” We fight aganist principle and munacipaities, rather then flesh “. In other words we fight aganist a concept rather then color, ethicnicity, race or many of the other artifical devisive things placed in us by the class upon which your rant should be launched.
I know that some of these people need help with food but I think most of these people are health eneough to work for a living. I am 77 years old and started working when I was 16 years old. I never was rich but worked sometimes 7 days a week and raised 3 kid. I never expected anyone else to feed me or my family. These so called poor people need to get off of their fat buts and go to work I as a taxpayer am sick of feeding these people that keep on begging for freebies.
@ Mr. or Mrs. Old Cajun. Your spirit is what we as INDIVIDUALS need now more than ever. SELF reliance and perserverance is the only way. Too many of our people are buying into the COLLECTIVE pain body which they have been programmed to believe from the time they were children. This mindset has given many of us the dreadfully deadly mindset of “Why Should I Even Try?” THE PROBLEM IS NOT A MATERIAL ONE: IT BEGINS AND ENDS IN THE SPIRIT.
Dreadfully Deadly Mentality*
Wow! There are really some smart people responding to this crime against humanity. Hungur is the one thing I believe will remove these collars off our necks. When people get hungry their eyes turn to those rich hoarders of a country and make decisions that sit in motion change and they create from that change a new nation. It’s sad but I say we need more people in this country hungry because we need a total change of government with a new constitution
Hunger is a terrible thing to happen to any one or any family. I’ve worked for over 35 years of my life and I’m still working. I’m thankful for the blessings that my family has. Needless to say there are some people who actually do work and spend almost all of their money paying for their mortgage/rent, bills, gas/bus fare, utilities, etc. and don’t have enough to feed their family. I know couples that both work yet need foodstamps in order to make ends meet and not starve. My family even bought groceries for them before they swallowed their pride and applied for assistance. Of course there are some people who abuse welfare just like there are some people who are criminals. Not everyone abuses public assistance nor is everyone a criminal.
Peace and love to those who understand…
Please don’t let the name: Derrick fool you he is a WHITE-BOY posing as a BLACK person.
Let me tell you something! DON’T EVER INSULT ME BY CALLING ME A g*****n ALBINO MUTANT CAUCASOID!!!
As a matter of Truth, YOU are a caucasoid, who don’t want the Truth I post to be heard or read by my people!
You honkeys go on these so-called Black sites and LIE, CHEAT and BRAINWASH negroids, who always beLIEve you forked tongue lizards! You are planters and agents; that I have dealt with before on other sites! YOU HATE THE TRUTH I SPEAK!!!!
I AM BLACK, ALL BLACK, PURE BLACK, so take that ‘white lie’ and stick it up your pale, flat a*s…SIDEWAYS!!!
white lie = the most wicked LIE you can tell; evil; demonic; WORTHLESS information; DEADLY!!!
You or any jealous hearted negroid, who sread these lies are nothing, but a bunch of ENVIOUS HEATHENS, who want Black people to stay in this submissive, weak, beggin’ condition, so you crackers can continue to CONTROL them.
Real conscious BLACK brothers and sisters know the Truth.
LATER, YOU WHITE LYING a*s b***h!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Derrick. WHITE, BLACK, OR BROWN- YOU’RE NOT VERY WELL SPOKEN. YOU REMIND ME OF UNCLE RUFUS FROM THE BOON DOCKS. Just obnoxious. I don’t curse very often but please shut the f**k up or find another site or just fall off the planet, please? You are an annoying piece of s**t. Caucasoid? Negroid? It all makes since: you are white aren’t you you little b*****d. I have no problem with you being white. My problem is your dumb a*s tone. Stop living a lie and come out of the racial closet- IGNORANUS.
p. pot:
lol! I know how to get to you racist demons, don’t I? You remind me of a fe-male dog…a b***h!
As long as, I know, who I am; your childish ways and words don’t harm me. By the way…don’t tell me what to say, and where to go because I’M YOUR MASTER!
We’re gonna put you crazy crackers back in chains, where you really belong…like your dogs!!! Perhaps, you people, will not be able to kill, shoot, maim, and beat Black men, women and children.
b*****d: a counterfeit; sham; anything inferior or varying from standard.
With that in mind; YOU are the bastardly b*****d on this planet! YOU are a FAKE and SHAM…phony b*****d!
YOU are INFERIOR to me, boy! You are NOTHING to me, but a worthless piece of s**t!
NOW, come on out the closet and let your male husband F**K you!!! Didn’t think I knew, eh?
Next time; keep your dog-like nosey a*s out of grown folks conversation!!! YOU GOT THAT?
YOU b*****d a*s PUNK!!!
You’re a funny guy Derrick- dumb as a broken door k**b but funny… Stay Angry, Black Man. POWER TO THE POOR.
@p. snot:
You are a very NIGorant BOY!
You silly caucasoids are crazy!
By the way…Close your legs; your breath Close your legs; your breath stinks!
Oh. I get it- you’re trying to say I’m talking out the a*s huh? Thats very funny. Derrick you are quite the witty one aren’t you?. Lol. I really think you should start your own blog where your type of humor can really be appreciated. That way you can have something to occupy your time while the rest of us are at work making a living. STAY ANGRY, BLACK MAN.
@p. snot:
I’m hiring for a janitor, if you need a job! Like I told you B4, I DON’T DO THE MONKEY FOR THE HONKEY!!!
Remember that, b******e!