• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m pretty sure that the privileged are well fed around the world.

      Approximately 13.5 percent of U.S. households — more than 47 million Americans, including nearly 14 million children — struggle to put food on the table. Here the measure of hunger is “food insecurity” — an ongoing uncertainty of where the next meal will come from. More than 1 in 5 U.S. children are at risk of hunger (1 in 3 among Black and Latino(a) children). To the surprise of many, most Americans (51.4 percent) will live in poverty at some point before age 65.

      https://www.bread.org/hunger-explained/hunger-in-the-u-s/

    • AzuranAurora@piefed.ca
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      3 days ago

      We’ll see how long that lasts with the upcoming fertilizer shortages, rising trucking fuel costs and the loss of immigrant farm workers…