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In this @postopinions op-ed @chefjoseandres makes the case that the US needs to learn from the hunger crisis caused by the covid epidemic as it did healthcare after the 1918 flu pandemic, which led to organized medical care as we now know it it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jose-andres-pandemic-hunger/2020/12/07/6740ceb2-38cf-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
A similar approach is now needed for food and hunger. The pandemic and the economic damage caused by it have triggered a hunger crisis in America. Almost 26 million Americans say they don’t have enough to eat each week, according to the latest census data. @chefjoseandres writes.
“Hunger is not a red-state or blue-state crisis. In @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky, 12% of adults say they don’t have enough to eat. In @SpeakerPelosi’ California, it’s 10%,” @chefjoseandres writes.
“This is not an urban or a rural crisis. It shows up in the long lines of people on the sidewalks of New York City and in the long lines of cars in East Texas, all waiting for the distribution of free food.”
As @chefjoseandres, who knows more about feeding millions of people facing life or death crises than anyone else on the planet, points out, “Hungry Americans don’t have lobbyists, but they do have members of Congress.” It’s long past time they do something about hunger.
