1. One case of food insecurity that we can see is when the documentary goes to the life of Barbie.  She has to ride two buses and travel more than an hour in each direction to shop at a fully stocked supermarket. She was mad about how the government sees that 1 day with no food is not starving. However, in her eyes and the way she feels, she does. Her food stamps last for 3 weeks at the most and for the last week, she becomes crazy because she has to manage her amount. She said that since she was 2 dollars over the income limit so she couldn’t qualify for food stamps. once strategy she has is that she has to take a little from one day to put into another. Barbie’s situation changes as in the beginning she had food stamps and didn’t have to worry about her kid’s lunch, but now since she got a fulltime job and doesn’t apply for stamps anymore, she has to worry about their lunches now. Another case of food insecurity is when we get a look into the life of Rosie’s family. her mom tried to get government assistance but was rejected. She makes about 120$ every 2 weeks and she has a family of 7 so its hard to manage. they don’t feel too good about being food insecure as they don’t like the feeling. They had to be without vegetables for a while, they run out of milk, and they eat dry cereal instead. They sometimes run out of food and when they do they try to ask friends for some. Rosie’s family situation changes as they get some food bags later on in the documentary, it contains food items like cans or instant noodles and such as the like. They have about 30 jars of peanut butter  as well. Her family’s life changes as they have more food now and dont have to worry as much.

2. My reaction to this movie was surprised. I thought it was only third world countries that had a big problem with food insecurity but surprisingly the USA is ranked number 1 for this problem. Some information I was surprised by was when they showed us that one out of every two kids, end up on food assistance once in their childhood. This surprised me as I didn’t know it was this big of a problem in the USA. I thought it would be less. I thought food insecurity was just not having enough food to eat but the effects of it are bigger. Kids must go to bed hungry and have to eat processed food compared to healthy food cause its cheaper and will fill you up more. This then leads to obesity problems and so on.

3. If I were a politician or policymaker, I guess I would try to increase the number of food stamps for food-insecure families. Another thing I would try is to ask the big greedy corporations to donate more to food banks or programs