Hunger In America

Food, everyone knows what food is. Some people know what it’s like to have an overabundance of this precious resource, but some less fortunate, can’t afford, or gather enough food to feed themselves, let alone their families. In the late 1960’s the first food bank was made after a man named John Van Hengel heard a coworker, in a soup kitchen, told him about how there should be a way to store unwanted food for people who needed it later. The beginning of making sure that anyone who couldn’t put food on the plate for themselves in America, pushed outward towards other countries, the most common of these is Africa. It does seem however that America wastes enough food to feed starving countries. Studies have told, that over $160 Billion dollars go to waste every year, when it comes to Americans throwing away the food that they don’t eat. If half of that much money went to feeding the hungry in other nations, and even this nation. A lot less people would be starving in the streets. There are a lot of celebrities that spend money on feeding the hungry in other nations, but a lot of the time it’s not for the noble cause of just feeding the hungry in another nation, but instead, for the screen time that they can get from doing this. A good few don’t do it just for the screen time but, it seems like the ones that do don’t take feeding the hungry as seriously as they should be. The few that do do it for the sake of feeding the hungry have donated over 4 million
Other reasons would be because they really want to make sure that other people have food to eat as well. Another reason might be because, of the huge tax write offs that they receive from doing something like this, when they donate huge amounts of money like that, their taxes are reduced