re: One in six children go hungry in the US, true or false?

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Go tell the 1,400 people who died from starvation

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First of all, do you actually believe that? And is it "access to food" that caused their health issues?

Oh, so you can’t be wrong. Every piece of evidence that contradicts your uninformed thought is wrong and your uninformed thought is gospel. Glad that’s settled.

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U.S. Malnutrition Deaths Have More Than Doubled

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oh for fricks sake, now you are quoting a survey from the same agency that brought us covid, thats real rich.

old people dying of malnutrition, it said nothing about not being able to afford food.

And do all people have access to food, yes.

You are asking for a grocery store to be built at arms length to everyone?????? Well we have built bathrooms for every mentally ill cause known to man, might as well build grocery stores and set up rules on what "class" can go to each one.

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I never said I cooked for kids in my class 3 time a day. How often do you cook for hungry kids? Maybe I can learn something from you.

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Well explain to us how you delivered three meals a day to the kids?

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Can you detail how parents with multiple jobs, no transportation, and no refrigerator manage free food competently? Thanks.

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lolololololololol

I’m being interrogated on the logistics of delivering food to kids in my class but you refuse to tell us how many kids you help or how you help them?

I’m not playing.

Many charities are total bullshite

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We have food insecurity, where you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

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How many people suffering from this made up condition have the latest iPhone, high speed internet, video game consoles, 4k TVs and/or at least 3 streaming services?



We don't have food insecurity, we have a deliberate effort to misplace priorities.

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Hungry bc this country has developed an insatiable appetite just look at the average size of people now

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Fair point, but there's no reason kids should go hungry without it being the fault of the parent. Maybe there are situational outliers that are the exception to the rule, but I think my statement overall stands.

Mrs. Axe manages a chain store that sells groceries, and you'd be surprised how much people with kids get on their SNAP cards (she can see the available balance when people make a purchase). It's not uncommon at all for people to come in buying nothing but sugary junk shite and soda, and have a balance over $1500 on their SNAP card.

Like seriously, Mrs. Axe and I bust our asses all year to make so much that we don't qualify for any benefits of any kind whatsoever, and it costs about $350-400 in groceries to feed the two of us for a month that we pay for with actual money, then we get the shite taxed out of us to buy SNAP groceries for Trailer Park Patty and her 4 mixed kids whose dadS are all in prison, and she won't even bother trying to work because it's cheaper for her to get free groceries, subsidized housing and utility assistance, and let people use her SNAP card for a .50 cash trade for every dollar they spend.

This is exactly how the middle class is destroyed, and it's happening.

As far as there being 1 in 6 children "hungry" in the US? I mean, what are the parameters there? Are they asking people at a certain time of day, or what is the data? FFS, my youngest daughter when she was still a little one, would say "I'm hungry" so much that she actually said it a couple times at the dinner table while in the midst of consumption of the contents of her plate.

I call bullshite on "1 in 6". I live in a smaller community with an average median income of something like $30k/yr per household so it's not like we're some upscale area. It's honestly a pretty "impoverished" area by national averages, and I can assure you that the kids we see running around town and the school are NOT starving. Hell, probably 4 in 10 of the kids are fat as hell. Like, neck rolls looking like the Michelin Man fat. When I was a kid/teen in the 80s and 90s in this very same area, maybe 1 in 100 kids were "fat", and not even morbidly obese like kids I see today, but just overweight.

People "know" what they know, and there isn't much chance of changing anyone's mind about anything these days.

So, I'm not even going to try.

I will, though, point out a few things that I know to be true, because I've seen them with my own eyes.

1. Some folks holler about the problem of obesity, but they seldom mention that healthy food simply costs more.

2. In many areas, there aren't grocery stores. There are Dollar Generals and Family Dollars. People think those places have low prices. They don't. They have "smaller" products. Couple days ago, I didn't want to drive to the bigger town down the road, so I went to the small town and Family Dollar. Needed some treats for my dogs. At home, I buy the big bags of Pupperoni, 30-something ounces for $16. At Family Dollar, I could only get small bags of treats (junk that the dogs won't even hardly eat) for $5. Per ounce, expensive comparatively.

3. Life in rural America has its higher costs. Electricity is much more expensive, for example. The baseline price at this cabin, the price I pay in the months when no one is here, is $42. At home, in a "city", where I'm running AC on blast in the summer, my bill is scarcely more than $100. And, no, it doesn't matter that the same house would cost three times as much were it located in a big city as opposed to out in the country. The struggling folks we're talking about aren't buying houses anyway.

4. One last thing. Kids and food. Some parents are trash. No doubt. That's why all public schools should feed kids at least two meals a day. All year. Bypass the terrible parents. But, shockingly, many people don't support that. They abhor feeding poor kids. That, I'll never understand.