Two examples I found in the movie were Barbara’s inability to feed her kids because of her low income job and her not qualifying for food stamps and the farmer girls family also not being able to bring in enough food. Barbara coped by finding a better job which gave her a lot of extra money for buying food but sadly in the end she went back to where she started because she couldn’t qualify for anything free anymore. The farmer girls family coped by borrowing food from their friends whenever they didn’t have any food at all. It doesn’t seem like they were successful because they stayed the same. They only ate mostly starchy foods too.

I think the most affected demographic would be the single parents with more than 2 kids. They would definitely be hit the hardest as they don’t have a high income at all with lots of mouths to feed. The movie said that if your parent was a single parent then you are bound to become one as well, it seems like a cycle that is incredibly hard to stop and depends on the individual.

I was sad after finishing the movie. After thinking about it and remembering, I was also raised with poor food because of financial difficulties. I always knew food insecurity was for more people than just homeless people because I was in a family that was food insecure. We had to go to the food bank lots of times to pick up lots of random starchy and sugary food which was unhealthy. I think that is the main reason I am overweight today. The only thing that surprised me, only because I didn’t put thought into it before, was that the reason parents feed their kids junk food wasnt because they didn’t care but because they couldn’t afford better food.

I think a difference you can make today WIP