"It's a funny world, this world where farmers go broke while people go hungry, Cyndie Tidwell of the Minnesota Foodshare sees it this way:

It's a confusing and ironic image of America - a nation that had to put nearly one third of selected cropland in "idle" to try to reduce surplus of basic commodities, and still ends up "holding the bag," so to speak, with warehouses bulging with excess food- while we here in Minnesota, part of the breadbasket of the world, have hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters unable to put adequate food on the table, or to meet other needs on a secure basis. We ask if it is possible to say that every person as a memeber of the community has inherent rights and claims on the resources of the community in a just society. That seems to be an emerging consensus of the community here- and might it not be reasonable to assume that it would also be the consensus of the nation?

We can't say that people are hungry because there is no food, In one year the farmers of America grow twice as much food as our country can consume, But whilke millions go hungry, the governemtn builds bigger barns to store the superabundance. Is it crazy? To let people go hungry, not because there's a shortage of food, but becasue they can not afford to buy it?"

 

from Poverty in America