But Farmers Can Meet Need, USDA Says
Hunger Still Exists in U. S.
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hungci in tins a;e o r afiliunuc
in this land o j ontv’ \n:l wha r
can be done ,o assitie e e
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quate diet 9
The Department of Agncultuie
has been grappling with the mo
blem of hunger and malnulrPion
for years, according to the USDA.
Farm Index The Commodity
Distribution Piogiam, which dis
tributes food free to schools,
needy families, and charitable in
stitutions, was begun in the
1930’5. And USDA initiated a
pilot food stamp progiam .n
1961
Assistance undei all of USDA’s
_ , . , , , food piogiams therefoic added
Bu. whue those cost fi=>mes dp to pe bans U 2 pei cent of the
Last fiscal year, an ave age of seem substantial, USDA s food tota j t ooc ] mai i£ C t m the United
of 2 9 million people leceived Piograms actually amount to on state 3
$603 million woith of food a small pa tof the to.al food Reccn tj v a num^ei 0 f o *he '
stamps. For these, the i cements maiket m om coumij methods of closing the food and
paid $374 mill on and the gove n Food spending bj all consum nutntion gap have been piopos
ment provided R 229 million ers m the United Slates totaled ed One of these, income supple-
Aside fiom these two majo aiound SIO4 bilhon in 1969 Thus ments, would allow iccipients
programs for needy famil es, the S6D3 million in food stamps Tee choice to pm chase food,
USDA also sponsois otheis One was only six-tenths of one pei clothing, housing, an automobile,
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P'o\ides nipplenn 'it.il fools foi
reeth mo. heis \iiThe. don des
food to” mo e t.i.in ! 2 m 11 on
lu.«oiia Inin r in in-t..n .mis In
audition, both food an 1 inonev
a e supplied to lurches and
b-cakfasts in schools
The National School Lunch
Pi o,i am, in existence foi 23
yc-ais, seived neaily 3 4 billion
noon meals to 20 mill.on child
ren in fiscal 1969 About 15 pci
cent of these meals were piovid
ei fiee or it i educed cost to
children of needy families
A second breakfast p.ogiam
was instituted in moie than 3 000
schools in 1988 Nearlv three
four.hs of the bieakfasts weie
prov.ded fiee of chaige
unt of total ioo'l c xpcnditm e-
\ml Mine o\u thuv fifth-, of
the \ahie of food stamps m >u
sente.l conti ihut on-, by tecipi
nit-., the net addition to food
spemhng lepiesentcd by "bonus”
stamps could not have cscceded
two .enlhs ot one pci cent of
total U S Food spending last
yeai
The food donated tin cell v to
needy families, schools, and in
stitutions amounted to aiound
one pel cent of all food consum
ed And the total value of food
and monetaiy assistance given to
schools aveiage out to 15 cents
pci lunch
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April Ml. 1070 If)
oi wluleui ilie\ in(>il oi <k '>ii’ food pnuh.ised P.nl of inueas-
Hut im ome Mippli inenii'vould i>l food expend tine-, timi illy
In, an i\;\ns.\e nn atK of nn- _o' foi hi "he. r|ii,i!il\ oi pu
pi o\ mu Ihe (pi.ili'.v of nu d\ f.im- h.ip> only moie e\pe:isi\e foods
iliei’ du Is foi it takes .iiekitive uthii than foi .m iiim.isi m
ly kune meiea-e in nvonie to u'lu" <|U.mlitv of !ood oi enen-
Ueneiate only a ‘■mall inereasi, lull nutiieiils
iu food expendUuici
\nal>sis> of data fiom the 1.965 ed th.it it would lake .1 S2O hil
suivcv of household food con- I on income supplement to mise
sumption indicates that a 10 pe. ,ood „ “’"sumption of families
cent met ease m the income, etc lISe , the £
in the income of families earning '?Tf S t “ P
less than $3,000 annually would ,hat 3 mcomes
be expected to boost their food °\£l 5 . , ~ , ~,
spending by only one 01 two per The nutri p or J al c l l,alu u
cent * diets is only loosely associated
v ith family incomes
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