Food Shortage In America

The world is not caring about the more important things in life such as being thankful for what they have and where they live, having great support systems, and being educated. All these things are great to have in order to be successful but in the shadows are the ones who don’t have the opportunity to have those things and not having these things lead to those who end being homeless, hungry, or resort to violence. I’m here to talk about the big thing that is constantly on TV but isn’t being taken into action and that thing is world hunger. World hunger is one of the main problems in America and even all around the world. I was watching TV and I noticed the BET awards was on and there were all these rich celebrities who have all this money

In this critical response to the article America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix it by Bryan Walsh. I am going to talk about how animals are being harmed and are given antibiotics to keep them from becoming sick, where the farmers put all the waste from the animals, and how people could fix it.

American society has grown so accustomed to receiving their food right away and in large quantities. Only in the past few decades has factory farming come into existence that has made consuming food a non guilt-free action. What originally was a hamburger with slaughtered cow meat is now slaughtered cow meat that’s filled with harmful chemicals. Not only that, the corn that that cow was fed with is also filled with chemicals to make them grow at a faster rate to get that hamburger on a dinner plate as quickly as possible. Bryan Walsh, a staff writer for Time Magazine specializing in environmental issues discusses in his article “America’s Food Crisis” how our food is not only bad for us but dangerous as well. The word dangerous

A severe shortage of food in the United States could occur from many causes. Farms could stop growing crops and breeding animals. Some sort of bacteria could sweep through the country killing different food plants. The more important part of the shortage of food however would not be the causes, but the effects. The stance of the country's economy, the well-being of middle and lower-class families, and the quality of stores that used to sell the products would all decline greatly if an event as severe as an extreme shortage of food were to occur.

Consumers have become increasingly detached from their food as America’s food system grows larger and continues to ruin the environment. The main problem is that most consumers do not know how their consumption habits affect the ecosystem around them. Nor do they know about how their food was produced. Information about how and where the food is being produced and wasted is essential, so people can shop responsibly. Short of legislation, Americans make choices at the grocery store. It is essential for all Americans to cast in a vote with their dollars to change the way that food is produced in the United States resulting in more sustainable food being more accessible in the aisles of the grocery store for all Americans.

The agricultural industry: the farms, plants, animals, and farmers, have supported this great country for so long, but lately we have turned our backs on it. Today, we live in a materialistic society, people wanting more and better items, not settling for products that will accomplish the same job.From looking at the fruits and vegetables in the grocery store, we see the bruised or smaller ones left, while the big and brightly colored ones are selected first. In our society today, changes are constantly being made to help expand and evolve the agricultural industry, but it has yet been able to do so. To this day farmers across this nation have not been completely successful in providing for the people who make up this country. In the stores

In Texas 1 in 4 children which equals 1.8 million, are hungry or at risk of hunger. Texas is the 2nd highest state with food not guaranteed to children among all 50 of the states.Texas also ranks as the third highest state in household food uncertainty. Community gardens help reduce the food shortage, also it helps build the community, and improve health by increasing the vegetable

How have we been able to leave earth and break unbelievable feats that sound nearly impossible, and still not be able to do the simplest thing and feed our people with enough nutrition? Like the great saying goes, "We have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the Earth in our lifetime. We need only the will." Stated by our former president from the 1960s John F. Kennedy but although there were only three billion people during his time we still have the means to eliminate hunger in the United States with methods that scientist believe could feed the world of today that has above five and a half billion people or more which was stated by “feeding the worlds people”. But we should

Every day thousands person dies from hunger. Therefore tons of americans are on food stamps this year. How can you take action to stop us hunger?

Food insecurity affects more than 48 million Americans every year (McMillan). Those who reside in food insecure homes can generally not afford healthy foods, therefore increasing the incidence of obesity and other resultant chronic disorders. According to The American Journal of Public Health, “Food insecurity has been shown to diminish dietary quality and affect nutritional intake and has been associated with chronic morbidity (e.g., type 2 diabetes, hypertension) and weight gain” (Nguyen, Shuval, Bertmann, & Yaroch, 2015, p. 1453). Those who live without adequate access to nutritional food, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, have higher rates of obesity not because of the amount of food they eat, but the poor nutritional value of affordable meals.

food information into their school curriculum. Jamie Oliver declares (2015) “My wish is to create a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” He hopes that every child should learn to grow and cook fresh nutritious foods at school in order to fight childhood obesity. Oliver would like to see school throughout the US add nutritional foods and its values to every school’s curriculum. There are other celebrities that are doing what they can to combat childhood hunger. Jeff Bridges founded his End the Hunger Network which is a foundation to combat hunger. Mr. George Clooney, has found his foundation called Realizing the Dream which help combat hunger in America. The JBJ Soul Foundation founded by Jon Bon Jovi exists to help combat childhood hunger in America. Numerous other actors are using their name to help combat childhood hunger locally, nationally, and universally. Borognone states (2011) celebrities such as Jeff Gordon, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera and Bruce Springsteen are helping combat childhood hunger in America. These and other actors whom are too many to mention have an evident passion for helping

“Food Desert” refers to an area in a rural or even urban region with little or no access to big grocery stores that provides affordable and fresh food for people to have a healthy diet. These areas are mostly composed of low-income households who are often Hispanics and African-Americans (Ploeg and Breneman et al). They are often “trapped” in a geographical location where only small convenient stores, which do not have sufficient supply of all common, fresh and healthy food, are available. Currently, there are 13.6 Million Americans who have difficulties in accessing to super markets and large grocery stores. People living in such areas with limited access to grocery stores spend 19.5 minutes more to travel, comparing to the people living in non-food-desert areas (Ploeg and Breneman et al).

Starvation in America is heavily used when you also hear “donations” but have you actually sat down and looked into the problem? What causes it, and what we can actually do to help people? Is there really a way to stop people from starving?

The positive aspects of this essay are that the author faces off one factual problem of the American society. The author states, the problem of the food production and the impact that can generate in the environment and health. “Americans have not had to think about where the food comes from”. “We are exposed to chemicals on a daily basis” (Cerqueira 1). The author also suggests, that we need to consider how important is to make choices about the food. “Organic food contains more nutrients than conventionally grown food. We can avoid pesticides and hormones with organic food” (Cerqueira 2). “We can avoid some problems such as health problems and childhood obesity in particular”. (Cerqueira2). On the other hand, we consider that one of the

Coxe has studied the sector for more than 35 years as a strategist for BMO Financial Group. He says it didn’t have to come to this. “We’ve got a situation where there has been no incentive to allocate significant new capital to agriculture or to develop new technologies to dramatically expand crop output.”