The United States Is The Richest Country In The World, Yet Millions Are Food Insecure

Some people are just born losers and can't be saved.

I really don't understand what's happening here. USA has huge surpluses of food. Does it all go into the landfills?

I do know that there are wasteful food practices: one of the things that really pisses me off is when I go to the rancid meat section of Kroger, Safeway, etc., I'll see meat that is priced HIGHER than the fresh meat. This has been going on 20+ years... I stopped bitching long ago.

I think everyone should get food stamps. If you don't want to use yours, donate it to your church's food bank. Of course that means higher taxes, or we can just put it on the China credit card like we do everything else. And, at the end of the day, this doesn't put more apples on the trees.

I suppose if the income/wealth gap is widening, and Trump likes more almonds, perhaps broccoli fields are torn up to plant almond trees, so almonds are available (that poorer people can't afford.)

I will say that meat prices are finally dropping, which I've been anticipating for the last 8 months with the restaurants shutting down. How many millions of tons of meat was wasted because some dipshits couldn't reconfigure their supply chains? "Gee whiz, Denny's ordered only 20% of the steaks they ordered last month... that'll turn around next month... that'll turn around next month... that'll turn around next month..."