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A Place At the Table (Original Post) Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2013 OP
K&R! Saw the interview on The Daily Show! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2013 #1
Me too 2naSalit Mar 2013 #5
It is all because of capitalism. fasttense Mar 2013 #2
Two of the worst words in the English language Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2013 #3
HOORAY - nice story in Sunday L.A. Times Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2013 #4
 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
2. It is all because of capitalism.
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 10:06 AM
Mar 2013

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)
4. HOORAY - nice story in Sunday L.A. Times
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:38 PM
Mar 2013
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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