At least you know where your next meal MIGHT come from:
"Washington's Capital Area Food Bank broke ground last year on a $36 million warehouse that will double its capacity"
Couldn't that $36 million have been spent on FOOD rather than a distribution center -- unless THEY KNOW the problem is going to reach DEPRESSION-ERA LEVELS?
The fact is, THEY KNOW because the DESTRUCTION of the AmeriKan economy is a PLANNED THING, folks -- and I'm not going to argue it any longer!!!
"Anti-hunger activists retool strategies in soup kitchens, universities, pantries" by Megan Greenwell, Washington Post | February 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - In soup kitchens, food pantries, and universities across the country, activists are planting the seeds for an overhaul of the way America feeds its more than 35 million hungry people, the first major challenge to a system largely developed in the 1960s.
They have begun providing food where people live and work, reconsidering the need for big, urban facilities, and pushing for larger government food subsidies. The goal is to make food more easily available to working poor women, children, and others who, research shows, are a larger portion of the hungry than the urban homeless. They also hope to lessen the stigma associated with standing in line for a hot meal or groceries.
Meanwhile, at the U.N.:
"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
And that was just for LUNCH!
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Yup, THOSE FAT HOGS are working on the hunger crisis, yup!
"The first generation of soup kitchens are getting to the point of outgrowing their kitchens and thinking they have to build new multimillion-dollar facilities," said Robert Egger, president of D.C. Central Kitchen and a nationally recognized activist against hunger. "And we're saying, 'We need to be adapting to future needs, not building the same things but bigger.' "
What a SCANDAL in the RICHEST, MOST BOUNTIFUL COUNTRY in the WHOLE WORLD!
Soup kitchens, which provide hot meals, and food pantries, which offer groceries mostly to families, are the backbone of the current nonprofit food system. Most are in the hearts of cities and rely primarily on individual donations of food or bulk supplies from large food banks. They also need money for overhead, all of which leaves them vulnerable during economic downturns such as the current one, nonprofit leaders say.
Operating soup kitchens during traditional business hours shuts out a large group of hungry people. About 30 percent of households headed by single mothers reported going without food at least occasionally in 2007, almost four times the rate for single people, according to Feeding America, an umbrella group for 200 food banks nationwide.
Concerns about the nutritional value of food provided to the hungry have also plagued food banks. And several studies have indicated that many people avoid food pantries or soup kitchens out of embarrassment, leading activists to explore new ways of distributing food.
We all know they are getting the spolied shit no one else wants -- or dare eat lest it give you cramps and diarrhea!
In response, Washington high school students are taking leftovers from corporate cafeterias to homebound seniors. In Austin, Texas, a local food pantry has gone mobile, traveling to rural parts of the region where people have no source of emergency food.
Must it come to THIS? We have TRILLIONS for BANKS and WARS, but the KIDS have to COLLECT FAT-CAT CORPORATE SCRAPS so the ELDERLY can EAT?
A Harvard University professor suggests the money currently spent on food pantries would make more of a difference if it were put toward expanding food stamp programs.
"One weakness in the food pantry system is that it works through physical partner agencies, and so many of those agencies just open their doors and wait for people to walk through them," said David Davenport, who took the helm of the Austin food bank in March. "That's not sufficient. We need to go to where the people are."
To be sure, the traditional system still reigns. Washington's Capital Area Food Bank broke ground last year on a $36 million warehouse that will double its capacity. The food bank serves about 700 food pantries and soup kitchens across the region, which helped feed about 383,000 people in 2006.
Leaders of the current system say that they value experimentation but that none of the newer projects could currently provide food to the millions who need it.
But they are going to SPEND THAT MONEY THERE ANYWAY -- while YOU ARE STARVING NOW!!!
"There's certainly a place for new ideas and innovation, but when resources are limited, we need to focus on feeding people right now, and that's where food banks come in," said Kasandra Gunter Robinson, spokeswoman for the Capital Area Food Bank.
The food bank's expansion was sharply criticized by Egger and other activists, who said it does not address the root causes of hunger and does not take advantage of existing resources.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach him to fish, well, you know the rest....
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A HUNGRY and HOMELESS population is less likely to resist tyranny and martial law, folks -- and look to the fascist government as their savior and protector!
