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Related: About this forumA Place At the Table
Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson directed this new film about hunger in America and were interviewed by Jon Stewart last week. Opened across the country on March 1.
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A Place At the Table (Original Post)
Iwillnevergiveup
Mar 2013
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Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)1. K&R! Saw the interview on The Daily Show!
Hoping this is a huge success!
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)5. Me too
and me too!
fasttense
(17,301 posts)2. It is all because of capitalism.
Capitalism always creates a surplus while starving those who need that surplus the most. We have excess food and starving people. We have empty homes and homeless people, we have people without transportation and excess vehicles.
The whole system is rotten to the core.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)3. Two of the worst words in the English language
FOOD INSECURITY!
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)4. HOORAY - nice story in Sunday L.A. Times
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-place-at-table-documentary-20130303,0,898608.story
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"'We are spending $20 billion a year on agriculture subsidies for the wrong foods,' Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York Univerity, says in the film. 'And $20 billion would go a very long way to promoting a healthy, educated population, starting with kids.'
"Those facts combine to illustrate 'A Place at the Table's' dramatic linking of obesity to the high cost and scarcity of nutritional food. Hunger and heft, in other words are symptoms of the same problem."
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"'We are spending $20 billion a year on agriculture subsidies for the wrong foods,' Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York Univerity, says in the film. 'And $20 billion would go a very long way to promoting a healthy, educated population, starting with kids.'
"Those facts combine to illustrate 'A Place at the Table's' dramatic linking of obesity to the high cost and scarcity of nutritional food. Hunger and heft, in other words are symptoms of the same problem."
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