Feeding America in Tampa Bay
Even though are too many people
living poverty right now is a worldwide issue in today’s world but we need to
also to view the fact that poverty also strikes us in our own home nation. Hunger
and poverty are key links to many health conditions including malnourishment. That
is why I chose to place my sticker at the warehouse of Feeding America in
Tampa, FL. Feeding America has a mission to feed America hungry through
nationwide network of food banks and engage our country in the fight to end
hunger. I have volunteered at this warehouse for almost 2 years now and they
have been real selective with the food that they have received. Certain places
like Wal-Mart, Publix, Aldi’s, Winn-Dixie, Sweetbay, and so on. They’ll pretty
accept anything that comes through their warehouse but a good chunk of those
items that come through isn’t always up code. Feeding America takes this very
seriously because you do not want to send off a contaminated product or some
product that has been damaged and allowed bacteria to produce which can cause
illness such as salmonella, food poisoning, or botulism.
This represents a public health
issue because hunger and poverty still exist in the world today especially in
our own country and yet we have managed to downgrade it so much that not many
people pay no mind to it at all. Feeding America is just one of the many
organizations that adhere to this issue but it cannot stop there because hunger
will still exist unless we as the people, especially in our own nation, need to
do something about it.
This is an incredibly important insure in Public Health. I commend you for highlighting it and I completely agree with everything you said! I did a project related to this during my first semester at USF. In the project, my group made 200 pack lunches for the homeless shelter in St. Petersburg! It was an interesting experience and I learned a lot.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many people who go hungry today in the United States. The inability to access this basic need promotes poor health to those people. It are organizations like these that help advocate for those people who suffer. It hits hard when it are people in your back yard who go through these hard times.
ReplyDeleteI did not realize that these places such as Walmart, Publix, Win-dixie, etc. pretty much accept anything that comes into their warehouse and don't check before hand to make sure that it's quality product. After reading this i googled how many people are impoverished in the US, and i found a Census Bureau report for the last year that showed that there are roughly 46.2 million people living in poverty in the US. So yes, i agree with you. Especially with our country being so incredibly wasteful when it comes to food, we definitely need to do something about this and why not start at home.
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