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Extremely not-fun fact: collectively, humanity currently produces more than enough food for every person. But a huge part of it is either wasted or inaccessible by people that need them, which usually results in them not going to anyone and being wasted, which is why we still have food scarcity.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Food isn’t even poorly distributed. Almost everybody eats, and the only places people don’t eat it’s from other people with weapons actively preventing them from getting food, and actively preventing others from bringing it to them.

I’ve been homeless in America, twice. Both times I had all the food I could eat, as soon as I was willing to accept it.

The first time I relied on strangers and I ate like a king. The people of Cambridge MA just straight up gave me more food than I could eat when I asked.

The second time I stayed in a shelter in Denver. I had three square meals a day available to me, though I only ate dinner since my job didn’t permit me to attend the other meals. It was good food, donated and prepared by volunteers.

I am sick of people trying to perpetuate the myth that we have starvation in America. It’s one area we succeed in beyond the wildest dreams of anyone even 50 years ago, but haters just can’t stop hating on our society.

We feed people. We feed them extremely well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

9 million people starve to death every year

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Globally, not solely in the US.

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