A Place at the Table Page #2
say they don't have
enough to eat.
Last year,
nearly 30% of U.S. Families
were classified as "food insecure."
Food insecurity is this idea
that you don't know where
your next meal is coming from.
You have no idea
how you're going to manage
to find that food
or afford that food.
And when 50 million Americans
don't have that power,
that's a very dark indication
indeed of where we are.
Step up on there.
This will make a noise.
Step up on the table right there.
I'll be with you in just a second.
- What grade you in?
- Second.
Second?
You're in the second grade?
- How old are you?
- I'm gonna be eight.
Fixing to be eight.
All right,
and you've got asthma?
Okay, do you ever have problems
with shortness of breath
when you're outside playing
or anything?
I have to stop playing
and take a deep breath.
Okay. What did you eat
for breakfast this morning?
I didn't eat.
You didn't eat breakfast
this morning? Okay.
When you get home
in the afternoon,
do you eat a snack?
What do you eat?
- Chips.
- Chips? What else, baby?
What do you drink?
- Pop.
- Pop? Okay.
Do you have any other snacks
- Huh?
- Cookies.
- Kisses?
- Cookies.
Cookies.
Cookies and chips, okay.
Maybe you
could ask Mom to start
buying you some... some carrots
and some celery
and maybe some apples.
You could slice some apples up.
That'd be good, hmm?
A lot of people think
there is a yawning gap
between hunger on the one hand
and obesity on the other.
In fact, they're neighbors.
And the reason
that they happen often
in the same time
and often in the same family
and the same person
is because they're both signs
of having insufficient funds
to be able to command
food that you need to stay healthy.
Mostly, I really shop for...
I look around
and see what's the cheapest.
You have... Fruit are very high.
And you got chips that's 35 a bag.
So I say, "Okay,
I'm not gonna get the fruit.
"I'm gonna get some chips."
But if the fruit on sale,
I'll leave the chips and get the fruit.
She's overweight for her age.
She's very overweight for her age.
So I have to sort of watch,
and that bothers me.
Tremon, do you want blue juice
or cranberry juice?
Blue juice.
If you look at what has happened
to the relative price
of fresh fruits and vegetables,
it's gone up by 40% since 1980
when the obesity epidemic first began.
In contrast, the relative price
of processed foods
has gone down by about 40%.
So if you have only a limited amount
of money to spend,
on the cheapest calories you can get.
And that's going
to be processed foods.
This has to do
with our farm policy
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