- My personal reaction to the movie, “A Place at The Table,” is that it was shocking, I was never aware of the extent of hunger found within common American families. I believe that nowadays, food insecurity is rarely talked about in the media or in common conversations with other people, this could be due to other news headliners such as developing countries having a mutual struggle in finding food. The thing that people don’t realize is that we (collectively) as a country should be trying to end hunger and malnutrition before we even begin to feed other countries. The information given from the movie was an eye opener, looking into the perspective of the children’s eyes and seeing how their life is lived broke my heart and made me feel guilty since I am so lucky to be living in a home with healthy food to eat at arms reach. The parents struggle for food made me realize that the food insecurity epidemic in America was much more serious than what I or anyone would have thought; the food stamps presented within the film broke my heart even more so, I find it ridiculous that a struggling family must live off of $3 food stamps when there is more than enough food and money to be given.
- In order to end or at least lessen food insecurity, there would need to be something much more than a food drive to cure this epidemic. I personally believe that if everyone made the effort to donate at least a dollar per month into food stamps for these families struggling financially, it would greatly improve their quality of life and their health significantly for the better. A good way in promoting the end of food insecurity would be to spread the news of this particular problem onto various different media sources. I know that not many people know that food insecurity exists, so if this cause were to be encouraged on social media, newspapers, television ads, etc; food insecurity and malnutrition could be a thing of the past for these struggling families found all across North America.
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