The Future of Hunger In America
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- čas přidán 1. 12. 2020
- While the supermarket scramble to buy meat and canned goods has subsided, one of the biggest effects of the pandemic is still growing: hunger. In America, food insecurity has hit 52 million people, an increase of 17 million from before the coronavirus struck, and it's only getting worse.
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I wasn’t able to buy food in December but I was luckily blessed to get a new job. I truly thought my life was over once unemployment stopped. I didn’t think I’d make it to 2021. This crisis is real and scary af. Praying for everyone who’s going through it
Happy for you.
🙏🏽 Glad you found work!
The failure of crony capitalism is showing
@Jak świat się kręci. unnecessary comment.
@@jimboonie9885 proof?
The reason for most of this is also greed....money is more important than people.....until that changes..this will only ever get worse...
Is all about 💰💰
That is absolute fact. It's shameful. Life is cheap here in the US, cjeap and getting cheaper by the day.
@@dougseclipse6742 no sorry.....but de-salination of sea water is really a very very costly process...
@@dougseclipse6742 ok.....I am though a pessimist. ...and can't help but think of how toxic our ocean sea water is also becoming......another big bear I have is the massive mono crops of Avocados, Almonds, cotton.. etc by big corporations taking the water from the people worldwide.....and making Mafia deals with governments and some of their privatised water companies. The situation in California is bad.....and even worse in Australia, Chile, Peru etc.....without these water barons, and with education in better management of waste....there would be plenty of managed water resources for all. Desalination.....also.....attracts big business and corporate fraud....
is it not nice to live in a capitalist country?
"richest country on earth", no richest corp in the world: its only owners wealth
Bro the facts you dropping are chilling👏👏👏👏
Obviously capitalism equals wealth
Buy some stocks, it's easy. You're off the boat because you never got on.
@@JacobJonesy I agree, but taxing labor at much higher rates than capital while capital is taking a greater share of productivity growth, is stunting human potential. The US has one of the lowest socio-economic mobility in the developed world. Special interests controlling our government and corruption is bad for everyone. An uneducated public and broke consumers is bad for business.
@@sociolocomtsac there are help wanted signs on many streets of our local city, and panhandleers waiting at the stoplights.
Seeds guys and learn new things. We need to go back to the old ways and become less relient on the corporations and gov...! Take care of eachother and be safe out there!
There is already a Major shortage of Seeds in America.
Late but growing things isn't easy you need water too plus not many people have a yard and grow enough from the size of a yard I have pumpkins growing and that pretty much span my entire yard
i'm food insecure. down to one meal a day. I'm glad there is help out there.
What state are you in?
just buy food you bimbo
I am so sorry to hear this! I can’t believe this is happening. So terrifying
I'm so sorry man, I don't know how I can help other than tell you to stay strong bro
Here in Mumbai we heard many old people started their day late so they can skip breakfast.
This vid also shows how dependent Americans are on cars and the distance disaster that the petrol age has created.
You are right - I hate being able to drive anywhere I want, whenever i want. It's too much freedom and folks like you absolutely hate freedom and independence.
They cancelled the mass transit project in Austin, TX during the '08 recession. That's a place that could use less traffic. It also takes years though to build everything.
Yup, but pretty soon you will not be able to afford to buy Gasoline!
Cars don't represent freedom in anything but theory. In practice, cars tie people down to maintenance, gas, insurance, and loan payments. Not to mention how long the average American spends in traffic each year. If having to spend over a thousand dollars a month just to be stuck in traffic most of the time appeals to you, you're a lost cause.
Many people are going hungry in this country and all Mitch McConnell cares about is protection liability for corporations.
@LibertyIsDead No, he's not the only one by far but he is the main one because he controls the power in the senate.
Partisan=mentally disabled
Trump wanted to cut food stamps, so he can stuff his pockets and play golf.
They're not going hungry, they're overweight. It's healthier to be lean.
@@markbrophy5454 They are overweight, because they can still be starving, because of all the wrong food they have been eating.
Stop with the PC terminology. It's called HUNGER, starvation and famine thanks to wealth disparity - looking at YOU Bloomberg. Greed is an addiction.
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Love the series but can the music noise be lowered
All of their videos are like this
I like it actually
I agree. The background noise us very distracting. Adds nothing to the video.
The current covid19 crisis demonstrates what is wrong with how the world feeds itself!
Seeing spoiled dairy products, rotten vegetables and needlessly culled animals across the world should force all of us to rethink our “efficient” food supplies and try to create a system that is better able to withstand a crisis. We need to refocus on local and regional food systems. This doesn’t mean cutting off all trade, but it does mean building diversity, decent livelihoods for workers and opportunities for small and medium-scale companies/farmers to flourish. The goal is to create shorter, more sustainable food supply chains that are closer to our home.
Globalisation issues. those guys have had a lot of time now to revert to regional food packaging and small scale users. why has it not happened? Anyyway, even if we do get draughts here and there is starvation, it is for lack of food and rain not because someone cant pack it for use. seeing this is so wrong on so manu levels.
No. It shows how greedy those at the top are and how unwilling our government is to help the people. There is no shortage of food, there is a shortage of wealth.
@@SeekingFreedom369 I agree but the op also has a point. It's a win win for us peons to cut the greedy out of the loop. The rich are dead weight. Let THEM eat cake. Cuz you know they have ZERO actual skills
Meanwhile Europe has been destroying millions of tons of food each year for decades.
This all is on purpose it also happened during depression era. Things are being repeated
1.4 billion short for food bank?....why not ask for it from the 740 plus billion military budget.....FFS!
America produces more than enough food if it wants to, its other parts of the world that'll actually starve if things get bad enough.
Not Really, the West is running out of Water! Lakes and Rivers are Drying out.
Yeah, but it's not fairly distributed.
What this pandemic has shown me is that I have to think differently and make changes in my life by becoming more self sufficient by returning to how my ancestors lived. So I started learning how to garden my goal is to get to a place where I don’t have to totally depend on grocery stores. The pandemic has shown me how fragile the system really is and how society has become complacent. It is a human right to have food,shelter, water and health care this capitalist system and society is not working and it never has. So society has to start trying to think differently and trying to find solutions to these problems and making these changes so no one has to suffer.
Odd how all these poor people are driving brand new SUV and have the latest iPhone.... I’m not disputing that millions of Americans through no fault of their own have been thrown out of work due to the lock downs and the covid virus. However there is a case to be made that part of the problem is the general financial illiteracy of the American population who haven’t a clue on how to save and stop buying absolutely everything on credit. Sorry but poverty cant be blamed exclusively on the “system” there is a component of individual responsibility here also.
This is how Americans overall have been taught to live. Most are uber consumers comprising 70% of the nation's economy.
Absolutely! Accountability has been lost. Everyone ‘deserves’ now. Guess what? You don’t deserve anything. Neither do I. Earn it or don’t have it.
I’m so tired of people saying “the richest country in the world” the country isn’t rich, a profoundly small handful of individuals are rich period
I am an immigrant. I work in the US for 30K dollars a year. It's drastic difference compared to Russian Federation. I am not food insecure, I can save for retirement, I got driver's license and bought a car and almost graduated from 2-year college. My dad retired here on social security pension 1400 dollars per month. He could have retired to 250 dollars per month if he stayed in Russia.
@@rlukinn $30K annual salary is low and that's the point the OP is making.
@@hayaglamazonluxe I am comparing my income in the US to my income in Russian Federation. Life in the US is fun and easy. If I need a book or computer laptop or desktop or photo-camera I can purchase them right now. And Amazon will deliver them right to the door of the place where I live. If I need a car to learn to drive I can save up an buy it. And of cause I have banking account where I keep my emergency fund and savings. I top of that have Roth IRA and Brokerage account. I completed 2/3 of program of 2-year college and someday I will have other job.
If you're American, you're richer than half the world currently, and 90% of all people that have ever existed.....thank you capitalism.
replace economy with "rich peoples yacht money," its more honest
So if you had have been rich and successful you wouldn’t mind anyone robbing you and giving it to the poor ! It doesn’t work that way not all of us can be that successful and rich or have that mind set , even the well of actors are out of work ,successful businesses are closing down we are all in for a terrible seven years to come financially!, sad
heyyy im poor and live in a yacht, stfu all this boat hate
Richest Country, Richest Country, Richest Country, Richest Country yea just keep repeating that until you believe it :)
It may be the richest country in the world but there cannot be another that treats its citizens so badly.
We need to stop the food waste. I started buying ugly misshapen produce for a discount because it's not pretty enough to go on a shelf. Still tastes the same.
Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. Not only is it cruel, but its also incredibly unhealthy for humans to eat animal products. You would be better off to adopt a plant based diet for best health
Do you grow your own food?
DO you realize that eating meat has allowed you to have the small brain and efficient brain that you do? Otherwise, we would still be monkeys. WOW!
Last I checked bloomberg was against stimulus checks
That’s our next pandemic: a famine, just like in the old, old and old days- back in the land of Cannon.
I believe that what is to come is even worst than that.
So right!
yes, the systems are failing as we speak. high unemployment and massive covid restrictions world wide have strained every single industry. I think the government is going to use food against us and they'll have the ultimate control they've always wanted
How do we reconcile these reports of rampant unemployment and food insecurity and the need for more stimulus with the reports of record-setting holiday spending and issues with shipping backlogs of internet orders?
The people buying holiday presents aren't the same people as the unemployed ones who can't afford food.
These are such trying times on all fronts. We all need to bind together, pray for and help one another.
I liked that👍
Video well done. I hope this situation improves soon.
I dont understand why people fighting over toilet paper, seriously cleaning your own butthole with soap and water aint that disgusting.
I actually find using toilet paper is disgusting. Thats why I always use soap and water to keep my ass clean all the time. For those who have not tried yet, No your farts dont get to smell any better but thats not the point.
@@Sha_Monewhat are you talking about yukkkkk
@@roshenphilip2408 Keeping your ass clean 24/7.
@@roshenphilip2408 There is something called a hose or a bidet if you really don't want to touch your own ass
what? You need toilet paper to wipe, dada
Only in Amerika you can have a drive through farmers market 😂🚗
And it's still disgusting compare to European fruit and vegetables
IKR, maybe drones need to drop people food.
....in the middle of a pandemic where people are dying from Covid-19? YEAH! Wow....what an unintelligent comment!
Plant a garden.
And it was not us farms that just dumped our milk. The company's that turn our milk into cheese . Butter, ect. Told us to either cut our production back by at least 20% an in some cases by as much as 50%, also some farms had to do both cut back an dump the milk. And we also had beef to sale, but no markets to send them to.
Then I noticed ground beef was $12 a pound for a while at the store
Don't have children if you can't properly care for them. Selfish.
Exactly!
In the US there is always enough food for those who have the money to buy it. For those who have been spendthrifts before the pandemic and in the habit of spending all of every paycheck and making credit card charges to live high and beyond their means, sudden job loss means no savings and no way to buy food or pay monthly bills. Those who have a long pattern of frugal living below their means, of building savings, avoiding debt and owning outright their small home and a practical small vehicle, now find months of job loss an inconvenience but this does not prevent them from feeding their families or being able to stay in their home or pay their utility bills. Those who are unprepared financially are the ones who suffer the most during economic hard times. And a lot of spendthrifts do not even recognize that they are managing their finances poorly until they lose their source of income and have no savings to fall back upon.
trouble and violence is right around the corner people of the world stay calm and use reason
United for toliet paper
What about those farms that lost money and destroyed their crops instead of helping to feed Americans. I understand why they did it, but why didn't the government stop in to give this food to help?
I think that is one of the most disgusting things I saw during the pandemic that made me incredibly angry. Shelves are empty and they dumped food? It is almost as disgusting as farmers letting unperfect fruits and veggies rot in the field. WHY?!?!!? There is no reason. Who cares if the carrot is bent? Who cares if a pumpkin is misshapen? It's so dumb.
Stop calling it food insecurity it is called starvation start calling it what it is that's the first thing
Isn't it Food in security?
@@shrin210 when you have no money you have no job because the government closed everything up and you'll give any money and you have no food it is called starvation they want to make it sound better food insecurity
@@guywhite9522 ok, insecurity was different word for me.
@Kate Bailey california digging in dumpsters that's been here for a while
Mass starvation
The government and the rich are rich. Not the people
If you're American, you're wealthier than 99.9% of every human being that's ever lived in the history of mankind.....quit whining.
@@chriscrawl3732
You are ignorant. Go back to university and study ancient history. You know nothing.
If we stick together we can get though this!!!
That'll never happen, the racists maga insurrection 👌 is proof 🤣
So many people have donated money to Trumps defence fund. It’s just awful.I wish the would have funded that money to the poor and there local food banks.
Trump should get what he deserves and let him pay for it.
"richest country in the world" 🤣 You almost got me there.
I am an immigrant. I work in the US for 30K dollars a year. It's drastic difference compared to Russian Federation. I am not food insecure, I can save for retirement, I got driver's license and bought a car and almost graduated from 2-year college. My dad retired here on social security pension 1400 dollars per month. He could have retired to 250 dollars per month if he stayed in Russia.
@@rlukinn I admire you sir
@@rlukinn that’s so awesome! I love hearing this!
@@rlukinn welcome to America friend! I wish more people were as grateful as you to be here.
@@JacobJonesy -)
People need to think twice now about saving. It shouldn't take a pandemic for People to realize that saving some emergency fund isn't all that bad after all.
And buy a few extra things store back. Even if it is one bag of rice, beans, can of veggies.
if you count people living pay check to pay check, food in security is efeciting a estimated 52 to54 million Americans.
Covid Cases world wide is 80 something million people.nearly 2 million dead.
We are debts slaves for corporate
Idea: Non-perishables were hoarded in March. Food drive?
“We take MREs”
When I couldn’t find canned foods, eggs, milk, fruit, water, the church and the food pantry bank helped us. Just to get us by till the grocery stores began filling their shelves. I believe it will get worse.
There needs to be more spaces that offer land to help people learn to be self sufficient communities with gardens.
Every empty lot, or abandoned houses, etc. should be planted
fetching food while driving a car?
I noticed this too.
A car is shelter. And if paid off is cheaper than renting housing. Come on now
Yes crazy america
yes your car is your. new house. and if you have no car no one will hire you in some towns for real.
Because they want to keep distance and reduce covid
There should not be any corporations and big company in US, just given us the money so we can feed our family!!
It all crazy not to help your fellow citizens
The help got us in this mess
I was born and raised in America. We got tired of the high cost and fascist government there. Moved to Philippines in January 2019, life is much easier now. Except we got fat from abundance of unhealthy foods and ease of life here. America will literally shake the last penny from your pockets, people are so used to it there they don't even realize it's so overpriced to live.
True & thanks for sharing
Philippines has a very low obesity rate. If you got fat over there, that's your fault and not the "abundance of unhealthy foods".
The situation is that food production became centralized... which means fewer farmers produce more food... And those people will one day have enough! Like feeding everybody for lousy fiat money...
Imagine hyperinflation that would make food production meaningless financially... Hope we don't go there!
I think celebrities should step up and buy food for food banks that are struggling to help families, it would be a way to give back to the community.
7:05 soda bottle rolling then blue shirt man running and then.... I mean, why?
It was a gatorade....not a soda.
That is a third of Americans that won’t eat, especially because the stimulus check did not come out. Plus the job market is in a chaos, and lot of jobs are gone or temporarily gone.
Literally BS i have two full time jobs first time in my life this year
@@EtherealGoddess_Ent not everyone has the opportunity and availability to get full paying jobs. Your pretty fortunate and count the blesses you do have, because opportunities may only be for you.
Better learn how to grow your own food and move out of the city's
Robotics and and land dedicated to the production of agriculture’s for the public during a crisis would make a significant difference.
Music was not necessary
'Murica, when you're in line for food with a brand new car.
I can see that you are Dutch me 2. Be glad to live here
ummm what is she talking about 8 months....some of us on the west coast have been locked up since Feb 2020...
This comes to me with a SharetheMeal ads. Interesting
The stimulus needs money to feed the hungry not to send to Egypt
Because they need there baby to be safe 'israel'.
people are starving for food,, right hear in America, shortage of food is serious, because we're the one giving money to poor country, now we need food, open up your eyes and you will see, that thousands are hungry and homeless. and it's going to get worse, and you can take that to the bank.
The US is a wealthy country. It needs to re organise the supply chains.
Wish them luck.
I don't like the term "New Normal".
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - It's going to get worse - much worse over the next few years.
Right! We have ahead at least 3 years of hunger and collapse. 😰
ive heard that people have to work below min wage to earn thier food stamps? The states are profiting from slave low wage workers?
Also those in college or with any college degree are automatically ineligible for food stamps. I know because I tried and I only have an Associate's degree, but that doesn't get you a decent job. Still making below the poverty line. And yes none of the businesses here pay taxes for 10 years.
4:26 Stew Leonard's farm market.
richest PRINTING MACHINE in the world
These companies & corporations need to hire more people instead of trying to produce more production with less labor!!
They're replacing workers with robots and automation because machine don't call out sick or demand benefits.
I know what will feed starving Americans, corporate tax elimination and abolishing minimal wage!
That sure will allow desperate starving Americans getting well paid jobs
And when we are at it, how about giving up on human rights, we can't afford keeping up with it
Still waiting since Reagan for that wealth to actually trickle down.
HEY.. HEREs a crazy idea... LET the farmers sell directly to the customer...
@Clarice. so you rather they just kill off all the extra food and let it rot rather then sell it off to locals?
same... a normal city.
5:40 Aaaa.... what's happening here...
THE USA CAN NEVER GO HUNGRY WITH ALL THE WASTE too much supply release the supplies.
It's accessing the food before it goes to waste...that's difficult.
Why the USA considered to be the richest country in the world?
People don’t have saving and have to take loans and get mortgages ...
A huge amount of its population works for $7-12 per hour🤨
Huge income inequality, the wealth is owned by a very small percentage of people.
Do you realize half the world earns only 5 dollars a day? If you're American you're wealthier than 90% of every human that's ever lived.
We help each other. People got lay off. Business are closing.
People lost job, Food shortage will be next!
There are ranchers in Montana who are paid not to grow harvest or ranch cattle.
bring back small farms. Consolidation is a killer. did we learn nothing from the Irish famine.
Unfortunately, big corporations like Monsanto are the reason there are not very many small farmers. The lawsuits they bring if a "patented" seed ends up in someone else's field destroys small farmers. It is disgusting.
Back in the 80's I used to get 5, 1lb blocks of Butter for $1.00 from the Arab grocery store in our city
If you have been or are homeless you will be strong through all of this as many people who are use to going without the current situation won't affect them as it will others 🤔
The U.S. abandoned it's least rich people and condemned them to death.
Our poor are dying of obesity.
@@scottowensbyable yes they are. Food swamps are cheaper than whole foods.
@@KasirRham i happen to live on a farm and I am familiar with gardening. With the technology that is available to everyonev today vegetables can
Be grown year round indoors. I do have empathy for the people who don't know what to do.
2022 and things have only gotten worse for everyone I know. Including myself.
The average american weighs a ton and needs lots of food. I am a asian living in Singapore and i just ate a meal that is less than a dollar.
I didn't realize that a dollar was a caloric measurement.
What’s large people got to do with slim people. We are here talking about the Global ELITES forcibly starving people as part as the new world order/ reduction in people & their happiness
The USA is ridden with hidden fees in even food. But it isn’t just how much we eat but the quality our food is missing. I lost 10kg by moving to Spain and not changing what I ate. I’m now living in Japan and I eat just as much food but lost 15kg and spend less because their is far less processed.
But skipping a meal in intermittent fasting. I always forget how big my nation is till I visit. Especially comparing to east Asia
The Singapore dollar or the US dollar?
What did you eat?
Maybe the author of Hunger Games was trying to tell us something.
The fact that you register so called monetary wealth with being rich is where you lose the plot
4:41 these are russians and not americans
KAMAZ detected )
Laughs in asian rice and fish.
Lots of expensive looking cars in the food lines.....
IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC WHEN THE MIDDLE CLASS STRUGGLED TO EAT!?!?! Maybe recognize that you can have a nice looking car or nice looking things and have everything go completely wrong and lose a job.
Richest country should be counted as... dollar per person in the country... not the amount of money in the country... US is ultra poor if you look at dollar per person.
Why is the government not promoting home hardens?
I guess that the future of hunger in America...... just LOOKS GREAT!!
They drive in big shiny SUV to a foodbank???
Something wrong there
They just lost their jobs because of shutdown because of Covid 19. SO they already had nice cars because they had a job to get the car .
SO now since they have no money or ran out of savings they have to go to the food bank. Plus cant wait in line remember COVID 19 this whole thing ruins people lives .
@@avrilcode9945 sell the car to buy food
They have to pay petrol for those 2mpg suv's which it seems they still can.
I dont say that im not sad they lost their jobs, its the American way how businesses work in the US unfortunately.
But their are people a lot poorer who can't even afford a small car. And in the report they are arriving in suv's which drink fuel as if its nothing
Can’t eat your car.
@@wilfredprins9718 then how can they get to another job? Or get to an interview to find another job? You seem to be blaming the victim here. I see the disparity, but it may also be a borrowed vehicle, so they can go to get food. Things happen beyond a person's control sometimes!
@@Lisawhatshersname andcwhen things happen beyond your control sacrifices need to be made.
There are people who have no money for food and not have a car to go to a foodbank, especially no shiny SUV's.
A shiny SUV is not feeding you and a job interview you can do in a small car also or by public transport
Why not bring in extra butter and share with others?
Or can it 🤣
but the stock market breaks record highs strange.
It's clear that we cannot "give away" enough food to solve this problem. Some out-of-the-box action thinking is required. Something needs to be spearheaded at the national level to educate consumers on the need to manage their resources wisely when it comes to food. When those commodities boxes go out I've heard some people complain that they either don't like many of the items or they have no idea what to do with some of the bounty. We have a couple of generations that missed home economics education in high school due to the budget cuts of the past several decades.
People have become complacent over the perceived abundance of manufactured convenience foods without realizing that they probably never could afford them in the first place. The purchase of manufactured faux foods is money down the drain. It's really ok to plan menus around thrifty meals made from staple foods, just like great grandma used to do. I know we can eat well in America on a $1 a day per person, as long as one has a kitchen and isn't living in a food desert with no transportation. Some can do this as a choice while some may have to do this to survive. If you don't know how to cook, you'd better learn!
I’m Ferrari insecure…..I have been told I’m one of Billions suffering from this disparity…..subsidize me now!!!
RICHEST COUNTRY, 🤔😳🙄
Says a lot about the US that this happen
I had to turn this off because of one woman screaming every time she spoke. Everyone else around her spoke in a normal tone. You need to do something about the technical problems in your show.
When I share your videos on Facebook, Facebook takes them down
Jeremy same here . What are they trying to hide ?
@@rosaliamartinez8956 I wonder if FB is just trying to keep all politics out? They don't host up any of my youtube shares from PBS, MSNBC, ABC, NTD, VOX, etc. Could this be the reason for the anti-trust? Maybe they just want their content to really be focused on family photos?
@@jermsbestfriend9296 That is my thought also.
America a donation instead of a nation.
Sharing will save the world.
so food stores can get tax write offs to give hungry people thier expired and racid food .
isnt america a great country. a what would i love to live in a country like that. a country that doesnt give 2 shits about their own citizens. sounds like a dream to me lol. what a joke of a nation literally
Supply chain & transport is the issue.
People in my opinion go out too much to eat or order in. People also want to go to the most expensive grocery story such as Whole foods or Wegmans. Give me a break.
Millie isn't missing any meals!