How the issue of Hunger is handled in New York

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures relating to the Issue of Hunger in U.S. (Fort Drum, New York). More than 60 yrs. (years) after the human right to adequate food was formally declared by the United Nations (UN), hunger remains a characteristic feature of many people in the capitalist world system. Hundreds of millions of people, from New York to Mumbai and from Russia to Malawi, are unable to reliably access and consume an adequate diet. This condition exists, strikingly, in a world where food production and trade have easily outpaced population growth for decades. For example, in 2006, agricultural output (not all of it food) was nearly 40% higher than in 1990, a period during which the world's population increased by around 25% (Vernon, pp. 12-29). The number of hungry people in the world grew during that same period, and while hunger declined in relative terms in all the world's major regions, the recent price rise in food and the worldwide economic crisis threaten to reverse that encouraging trend (Vernon, pp. 12-29). In the next section, we will address the problem of Hunger in New York and propose solutions to reduce the problem in the region.

Discussion & Analysis

The increase in hunger is now a growing problem in New York, especially since the start of the global crisis, triggered in 2008. That global scourge strikes some 49 million people in that northern nation, of which more than 16 million children whose figure is estimated to increase this year. According to the Department of Agriculture United States, currently 16 percent of families are exposed to hunger, against 12 percent in 2007. Meanwhile, experts from the Research & Consulting Group in Chicago have popularized terms such as "food deserts" in order to define more complex realities related to this social evil. These experts uses the term to refer to areas with high Latino and African American population where there is shortage of supermarkets that sell fresh produce, like fruits and vegetables. However, the term is a sweetened construction not to recognize numbers and real data demonstrate the lack of food in the country that is supposed to be the best nourished.

When you visit any of the neighborhoods in the U.S. where these groups are concentrated, the food supply is very low quality and sometimes are defeated, which affects the obesity and diseases such as hypertension. Also growing food insecurity has also risen in a nation where 5.7 percent of citizens are forced to change their daily eating patterns, causing malaise in society. Likewise, extreme poverty, coupled with hunger, has increased 6.8 percent since citizens do not perceive even half the money that the government considers a limit where a person lives in poverty (Tarazuk, pp.120-126).

In a very basic sense, hunger is the experience of not being able to consume enough and the right kinds of food. While this ...