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1 in 6 Kids in the U.S. are Hungry?
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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1936973" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>[media=youtube]4IidoMVkDlo[/media]</p><p></p><p>I spend a lot of time in very, very rural Missouri and Arkansas hunting and fishing. People live miles and miles from actual towns on dirt mountain roads and often don't have a working car. Kids meet the bus and go to school. Parents grab a ride into town when they can and buy what they can. They eat a lot of stuff they kill or catch or store. I stopped to take pictures of his abandoned house, and one of the same era/construction across the road was occupied and had toys in the yard and smoke coming from the stovepipe. Not occupied in a "cute, restored" way...I mean it had a door and windows with newspaper on them. Otherwise it looked the same as this. I didn't feel right taking pictures of it. People were living in an old barn up the road. Slat siding and newspaper was the only wall insulation. This was 5 miles from pavement and many miles from a store. Think kids over there have ever seen mom walk in with an armful of real groceries? </p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sQLewmZdTXc/TyYS5NyzM7I/AAAAAAAAEWY/L_Z8Lt_FV1Q/s1024/399.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I help unload/stock food at a food center in the Tulsa are sometimes, and it's a mix. Half lazy slobs, half people that are actually hungry. Kids come to the summer lunch program, and whether mom and dad are jerks or they're just poor...they still ain't havin' food in the pantry. Regardless 1 in 6 kids being hungry might be a conservative number. People have a weird way of ignoring how a lot of the country lives. Before Picher and Treece got razed, this is how a lot of them lived. Short ride up the pike from Tulsa. </p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dK-mF2V60fE/TTzjsM9zHNI/AAAAAAAAAgc/c12wcxrHreY/s912/109.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1936973, member: 4319"] [media=youtube]4IidoMVkDlo[/media] I spend a lot of time in very, very rural Missouri and Arkansas hunting and fishing. People live miles and miles from actual towns on dirt mountain roads and often don't have a working car. Kids meet the bus and go to school. Parents grab a ride into town when they can and buy what they can. They eat a lot of stuff they kill or catch or store. I stopped to take pictures of his abandoned house, and one of the same era/construction across the road was occupied and had toys in the yard and smoke coming from the stovepipe. Not occupied in a "cute, restored" way...I mean it had a door and windows with newspaper on them. Otherwise it looked the same as this. I didn't feel right taking pictures of it. People were living in an old barn up the road. Slat siding and newspaper was the only wall insulation. This was 5 miles from pavement and many miles from a store. Think kids over there have ever seen mom walk in with an armful of real groceries? [IMG]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sQLewmZdTXc/TyYS5NyzM7I/AAAAAAAAEWY/L_Z8Lt_FV1Q/s1024/399.JPG[/IMG] I help unload/stock food at a food center in the Tulsa are sometimes, and it's a mix. Half lazy slobs, half people that are actually hungry. Kids come to the summer lunch program, and whether mom and dad are jerks or they're just poor...they still ain't havin' food in the pantry. Regardless 1 in 6 kids being hungry might be a conservative number. People have a weird way of ignoring how a lot of the country lives. Before Picher and Treece got razed, this is how a lot of them lived. Short ride up the pike from Tulsa. [IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dK-mF2V60fE/TTzjsM9zHNI/AAAAAAAAAgc/c12wcxrHreY/s912/109.JPG[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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