• stabby_cicada@slrpnk.netOPM
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    9 months ago

    https://frac.org/hunger-poverty-america

    If you say “well, not many people are really starving, if people just have to skip meals or suffer from malnutrition that doesn’t count”, congratulations, you’re part of the problem.

    The United States has so much food that no one should be going hungry.

    Frankly, the world has so much food that no one in it should be going hungry, but the United States specifically doesn’t have the excuse of civil war or crop failures or complete government dysfunction. We let our children go hungry from capitalism and spite.

    • 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Bro 40% of your country is morbidly obese and a disproportionate part of that are poor people as well as minorities. Food insecurity refers to the fact that people don’t have sufficient access to healthy food and your article admits as much.

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        9 months ago

        But you talked about society, and the US is part of that, is it not?

        Feels like you’re deliberately avoiding the meat of OP’s argument to catch them on a technicality

        • Jknaraa@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          Yea, it was a low effort reply because the guy I replied to was moving the goalposts.