Hunger mounts in the US

[shoeshock]

Think about it:

As the economic crisis deepens, its human toll is becoming more evident. A new survey of food charities in the United States has revealed a dramatic increase in hunger. Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the US, says that a growing number of families face difficulties in securing adequate nutrition. Meanwhile food banks have proven ill-equipped to meet the increased demand caused by layoffs and increased food costs, and many have collapsed or have restricted the allotments of food they make.


To read more http://www.inteldaily.com/news/144/ARTICLE/9034/2008-12-20.html

[Citizen Number 9]

1. What causes a food bank "to collapse"?

All I can think of is if they no longer have any food donations to distribute or if the volunteers no longer want to staff the bank.

[tama]

2. Rising number of hungry people

The mirror image that Fat America dares not to face. The millions of hungry, homeless, forgotten, abandoned. Without access to Internet.

Even DU is all about middle class this, middle class that, poor consumers, boohoo.

[tama]

7. I take my words back

Not all: Skinner has organized donation campaign to buy food for the hungry. In the GD, give it more attention, please.

[Citizen Number 9]

8. Nope, that's not it.

That's why the food banks exist.

I'll give you a hint: When they do collapse, it's because they lack resources.



What kind of resources are required for a food bank to operate?

[HopeFor2006]

5. And what is the reason for lack of food donations?

Could it be the increase in unemployment? Or a drop in the standard of living for most Americans? Or the fear that the economy will only get worse causing most people to hold on to what they have rather than to donate?

[Hissyspit]

3. I'm posting this in LBN, shoeshock.

Thanks for finding it.

"When you hear someone say, ‘I never thought that I would have to come to the pantry to get food,' or to have someone say, ‘I used to donate to the pantry and now I am using it,' that's when you realize how tough things are," a representative of the Community Food Banks of South Dakota said.

[CoffeeCat]

4. This just makes me so upset...

The thought of people going hungry in this country is so barbaric.

I do what I can, and I donate a lot to food banks. Sadly, it is never
enough.

It could be any of us, relying on food donations. These problems
will only worsen in 2009.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. Tis the agenda of those that hold the wealth and power...

subdue the masses through depletion of basic security elements... education and higher thinking will be relegated to ONLY those that can afford to keep their already elevated positions in society.

It is approaching critical mass. Revolution? Or, will there just be their anticipated "thinning of the herd"?

[Citizen Number 9]

9. Exactly what do you think

critical mass is?

We have a huge middle class and they are just off several years of good times. Maybe they are just transiently unhappy that it's slowed down and that there really is no free lunch.