How will the huge bailouts in Washington affect food banks and hunger issues?
You can’t spend $700 billion dollars and not have it negatively affect other things. I think things are going to be a lot worse before they get better. But I had a friend who used to say one in eight people is hungry in New Jersey-here in the mountains it’s one in five. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are four people who can help. There is a lot to be said for that attitude. Do most Americans see food and hunger as separate issues? It is a multilayered thing. Most people look at hungry people and don’t see hungry people. They’re seeing people who are overweight. One of the biggest problems we’ve got in this nation is that we are driven by price and we are providing cheap food that is not nutritious. Therefore, the people who have the least capacity to buy are buying the absolute worst food. They are consuming empty calories and they are packing on the pounds and we are developing a nation with all manner of diet-related diseases. Do you think we need to grow more of ou
