About this title: With the biting wit of "Super Size Me" and the passion of a lifelong activist, Berg draws attention to the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation. The author challenges the new president to confront the result of U.S. poverty--hunger--and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Seven Stories Pr
Date Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN-13:9781583228548ISBN:1583228543
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781583228548ISBN:1583228543
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781583228548ISBN:1583228543
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SEVEN STORIES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781583228548ISBN:1583228543
Description: With the biting wit of "Super Size Me" and the passion of a lifelong activist, Berg draws attention to the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation. The author challenges the new president to confron... read more
"$24 Billion dollars, the same price tag as 3 months of American combat in Iraq, would end domestic hunger. I know it's a problem, because it's what I do, but do you? Do you know how easily the government could end it?! I learned from Berg that it is the responsibility of our government, and since they are elected, our own responsibility to ensure that Americans stop going to bed hungry. Food is not a luxury or a privilege."
"THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU VERY ANGRY. A FULL 10% OF AMERICANS EXPERIENCE HUNGER ON A DAILY BASIS. WE ARE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY AND OUR COMPASSION COUNTS FOR LESS THAN NOTHING."
Sometime early in the year (or was it last year?), I heard a radio interview on Philly's public radio station with a man named Joel Berg. Berg was discussing 'low food insecurity' (also known as 'hunger') in the U.S. His energy and candor made me take note of his book, which came out just before Barack Obama was elected. All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America was the name of it, and I can't recommend it enough.
Berg, who worked in the Clinton administration on antihunger initiatives, gives a thorough history of hunger - which was later reclassified in grades of 'food security' by the USDA because that doesn't sound as bad - and poverty in the U.S. He touches on the role racism played in starvation of both whites and blacks in the 60s, notes the varying policies presidential administrations have enacted to fight hunger, and gives an excellent primer on food stamps and welfare reform. He goes on to challenge the notion that individual and organized charity is a viable solution, and insists that government programs are the only way to give poor people the stability they need to focus on education and work, so they can eventually enter the middle class. Berg concludes his book with a multiprong solution to ending food insecurity, and challenges the then-unknown future president to take concrete steps; and he lists actions individuals can take. The book is fantastic and engagingly written (despite the tons of statistics), and you should read it."
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