Reducing foods waste, lowering grocery prices, and expanding access to food.

To effectively end hunger there needs to be a solution. Not only are 50 million people in the United States that go hungry every night- but also over 1 trillion dollars a year are spent throwing away, transporting, preparing, growing and producing the wasted food. Not only that but 12-20% of the farmland is used to producing uneaten food. Food is wasted in the home, in the preparation process, in the commercial food producers and in restaurants.
Solving this crisis of hunger can be done by educating people to not waste food at home, have people waste less food. The average person wastes over 1 pound of food per day. Other solutions include rescuing food from restaurants that would be thrown out and giving it to food banks. Other solutions include composting rotten and uneatable food into compost to fertilize and be the soil for farms- recycling food and preventing it from going to landfill.
Growing and producing healthy food is important to create healthier adults and also to prevent diabetes, obesity and other health complications. Creating food with natural ingredients is also important.
To help feed Americans I recommend keeping snap benefits, decreasing paperwork, and targeting them to people who can’t work or who face the most discrimination. I do not think that people who go to food banks are taking advantage of the food bank- they may even be embarrassed. However I do know that some SNAP Meals are sold off on pennies of the dollar .50 Cents- .60 Cents. This is a disaster and can cause massive problems. That is fraud and those people should be arrested- they are taking advantage of desperate people. I think that the government should subsidize farmers and import food from Canada and Mexico to lower food prices to make food more accessible. Food should be rescued from grocery stories before they are thrown out and given to foodbanks or composted. The government should expand snap benefits and expand Amazon benefits if Amazon gives EBT/SNAP card holder a discount and they give the government a discount- a win- win -win.

8% of all the United States land is being to produce wasted food! That is atrocious the % of the United States land that is dedicated to housing is 2.7% urban land- that stat can’t be worse. 80% of the United States lives on 70 million acres of urban land that covers 3% of the United States. 8% of the United States land is based producing wasted food- it couldn’t be worse.









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