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Can you pick out the children in this class picture who don’t get enough to eat? If they’re representative of American kids as a whole, then you’ll have to choose five (about 22%). Here are some other disturbing statistics about child hunger taken from a survey of teachers done by Share Our Strength:
67% report that more of their students are in free or reduced lunch programs today than in years past.
63% buy food for their students out of their own money.
62% report that each week, they see children come to school hungry because there is not enough food at home.
57% believe that in-class breakfast programs should be established.
89% believe that addressing child hunger should be a national priority.
What’s on your mind tonight?
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On the topic of hunger and food, this Times magazine piece from last week is very interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html?ref=magazine
Agro-imperialism?
We feed our cars through foreign wars of aggression. Why not our bodies?
There have been riots in several countries when prices of food were skyrocketing. It’s possible that could be in the future, here, but from the cynical manipulating of the teabagger element that we’ve seen, I fear it would be directed against those who are actually attempting to end the economic disaster that’s creating, or increasing, hunger.
Thanks for encouraging us to think about this