Food Shortage In Texas

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

On Tuesday evening, over fifty of our leaders from Auto, Innovation, and Recovery came to fight hunger and feed hope at the San Antonio Food Bank. Collectively they sorted through 20,330 pounds of food which resulted in 16,264 meals for the city of San Antonio and it's surrounding counties. It was an evening of camaraderie and fun that will never be forgotten.

The East Texas Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger relief organization based in Tyler, Texas. The East Texas Food Bank serves children, families and seniors through out network of Partner Agencies. Additionally, we target specific demographics such as children for our BackPack, Kids Cafe and Summer Food Programs. Seniors are targeted through our Senior Box Program. Our Priority Population are those who are deemed the “working poor”. This mean they are working, however they still can not meet all obligations for their household, especially regarding food. Needs for the community are assessed through a variety of surveys and data analysis. Some of this information is provided by the US Census, USDA and Feeding America. The subgroups that need

The Volunteer Center of North Texas (VCNT provides agencies with training programs, background checks for volunteers and employees, and goods donated by area businesses.

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.

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.

Sherri Anderson once said, “Volunteers don't get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they're priceless. I have been involved towards my community for years and will continue to do so. I attend community service events once or twice a month to help an organization, animal shelter or center. I have contributed the community with 100 hours of my time to help others. Recently, I volunteered at the North Texas Food Bank, a top-ranked nonprofit relief organization. Thanks to this organization and volunteers, it has provided with more than 170,000 meals each day. During the summer, I helped shuck over 3,000 pounds of corn, which was estimated to help feed 2,000 people in my community. That following week, I spend some time on the weekend

The state of Texas, which is the largest state in the continental US, is the second largest by population. This makes by default means that Texas is an important economic center. However, this also means that Texas serves as one of the states with highest overall economic need (Poverty USA). Texas is ranked as number 39 in overall poverty by the states, and currently has over 12% of its population on SNAP benefits which is double that from 2000, despite the leaps and bounds made economically in the country and the state of Texas specifically (Texas Health and Human Services Commision) (Poverty USA). These benefits are used by the population to appropriate food for households, and are an integral part of

Food deserts are very prominent in the state of Oklahoma, not only in the rural areas but also in urban Oklahoma; to be exact food deserts can be found in 32 of the 77 counties (Rex, 2016). Food deserts are areas where full service grocery stores are scarce. In urban areas, a place is considered a food desert if a full grocery store is more than a mile away, in rural areas a place is considered a food desert if a grocery store is more than ten miles.

The current research findings within Texas gives rise to the situation in Nacogdoches County. Although no two counties are alike, research on rural Texas counties reveal common barriers. Many of the same issues are expressed throughout the region. Joliffe (2004) showed that over 40 percent of the U.S. nonmetro population had the greatest prevalence of both poverty and persistent poverty. This is the equivalent to one in six persons in the region living in poverty, and more than one in four living in persistent poverty counties (Joliffe, 2004). This gives impoverished rural families very little income for adequate

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

So, why do fifteen million children in America face hunger every day? How does this happen? Many people are on food stamps, and they can be extremely helpful, but it is difficult to feed family with them. Food stamps provide only a dollar per person for each meal, according to the organization, Food is Power. More often than not, unhealthy, processed foods are a lot less expensive than nutritious, organic food, and because of this issue, many people on food stamps reach for less expensive junk food. Unquestionably, healthy foods can be very hard to find and expensive in places like food deserts. Food is Power found that thirty-three percent of Americans live in food deserts. Of course, public transportation helps families reach grocery stores, but it still can be a lengthy trip, and in rural and suburban areas, there can be little or no public transportation at all. These issues make it a struggle for parents to provide healthy food for their

It is estimated that one in four children, or twenty-five percent of all children in the state go hungry on a daily basis (“Hunger in North Carolina”). Not only is North Carolina ranked one of the top ten states with the hungriest children, it also has cities which are ranked nationwide for food shortage including Asheville, Greensboro, High Point, and Winston Salem (“Hunger in North Carolina”). Many of North Carolinians rely on food from food pantries, government assistance, soup kitchens, and many other independent organizations freely providing food.

It is often said that knowledge or education is power. And indeed on the topic of food desert in America, knowledge or education plays a critical role, both for the scholars and the policies makers and all citizens especially the ones living in these areas. There is no better way to start analyzing the problem of food desert, its cause, its consequences on communities and its potential solutions without considering the critical role that education or knowledge has in this matter. We have to approach this problem with humility and “educate resident in these communities of the impact that the topic has on them as individuals...educate them to the quality of locally grown, seasonal, and organic food” (Guthman, 2008). The essence of Guthman's

“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).