First, a National Policy on food can save millions of Americans residents by investing resource to guarantee that food marketing sets children up for healthful lives by instilling in them a habit of eating real food because of unnatural diseases that attack the body are causing many lives and sickness. Bittman et al states, “Today’s children are expected to live shorter lives than their parents. In a large part, this is because a third of these children will develop Type 2 diabetes, formally rare in children and a preventable disease that reduces life expectancy by several years” (1). The consumption of high fructose corn syrup is affecting our health. Corn syrup has a high in sugar, which will develop into Type 2 diabetes within time.
Discuss how food availability and distribution, technological developments and societal factors impact on food equity. Up to more than half population of the world experienced food inequity due to living in isolated areas, lack of facilities, and environmental factors. While the other half of the population live in large settlements, often on food producing islands and is fuelled by the lure of food exports and imports. There is currently enough food being produced in the world to feed everyone, but due to unjust distribution, the rate of chronically hungry people is increasing. Food equity means equal access to nutritious foods and food security exists to all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious foods for a healthy lifestyle.
Census Bureau, more than 12% of the population in the state of Virginia is food insecure. It is a myth to think that people who need food are chronically poor. More likely, the person is unemployed, underemployed, suffering from poor health, or enduring the loss of a spouse. * The poverty rate for people living in suburban areas was 16.6 percent (7.9 million people) in 2009. * In 2010, the prevalence of household food insecurity in suburban areas was 12.6 percent (6.2 million households), and the prevalence of very low food security was 4.6 percent (2.3 million households).
So food is one place a struggling family cuts corners (2012). President Obama and others have set a goal of ending childhood hunger in the United States by 2015 (2012). One component needed to achieve this goal is strong child nutrition programs, like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the school meal programs (2012). But progress against hunger requires broader efforts to reduce poverty. Food assistance to hungry people is vital, but it is not enough (2012).
IRWP Food stamps have been America’s first line of defense against hunger since 1977. The program has helped countless people put food on the table and get out of poverty. Especially because of the recent economic problems, many people struggle to support themselves, let alone feed themselves and their families. We should allow the food stamp program to continue because it ensures people will get the nutrition they need, helps people put food on the table, boosts local economies, and supports those who are on a low budget. In her article “Food Stamps Should Be Expanded”, Linda Bopp states “More than 25 million Americans, including at least 13 million children, are not able to meet the most fundamental of human needs.” How can 25 million people go without food when America is one of the wealthiest and developed nations in the world?
He notes that in more recent years the child mortality rate and the malaria death rate have both significantly declined because of aid from private sector investors. Sachs also eludes to the fact that both public and private sectors need to continue to help with our world’s poverty issues. “The need for both will become more urgent as climate change and water scarcity intensify. (Sachs, 2013).
The root of poverty is caused by lack of access to land, a vulnerable environment, and low agricultural production (“Rural Poverty in Honduras”). About sixty percent of the land in Honduras is still forested, but only twenty-five percent of that is obtainable for agriculture (“Honduras: Economy”). In the twentieth century the Honduran economy was based on one commodity, bananas. Like other third world countries, whose livelihood depends solely on one export, the Honduran economy was at the mercy of the world market and its current prices. Efforts to diversify agriculture and expand manufacturing have shown some slight improvement.
While realizing a world very different from what we live in everyday, Qorro explains the struggles that Africa children and families face from “Where and Why Children Face the Greatest Danger of Dying in Africa.” While Africa struggles in many different areas, amongst one of the greatest is healthcare, specifically malnutrition. More than half of children's deaths in Africa are due to malnutrition in which thousands are dying. Although the values of deaths continue to decrease steadily, there is an abundance of improvement that can still be done by carrying little steps out at a time. Specifically for the United States to help, we could share our advanced technology or train nurses to aid in maternal care and births. As much as we think we suffer, are eyes haven't been opened to the world outside of ours and if there's a time to act, it's now!
But the sad truth is that many Canadians struggle with poverty every day. We can understand why there is poverty in these third world countries, the lack of technological advances, agriculture and employment. Here in Canada, one of the richest countries in the world; there is a great economy and large market for employment in most provinces. A person that is not mentally or physically ill should not have any issues staying above the poverty line, yet there are thousands of Canadians struggling to find money to feed, dress their children and keep a roof over their heads at the same time. According to the Canadian Council on
I could not believe that statistic, and how important it is for there to be an immigrant labor force in the agricultural industry. Ultimately, as there is counter debates in any controversial issue, skeptics state how much those immigrants contribute to the Social Security Trust Fund, which statistics have shown is nearly 10 percent, or 300 billion dollars (Goodman, 2014). Although, there is negative effects on the economy of undocumented workers and there is a small percentage of native