Friday, February 5, 2010

Battling Hunger

Texas Farm Bureau has a story about World Hunger Relief on their website:

Waco nonprofit works worldwide to promote food production and economic development...

Americans live in a land of plenty. Luscious greens, hearty meats, endless aisles of canned and boxed foods line the aisles of supermarkets. And most folks don’t give a second thought to how it gets there.

"People are definitely more and more detached from where their food comes from," says Matt Hess, education director for Waco-based World Hunger Relief, Inc. (WHRI). "Whether you’re a kid and your dad is a commodity farmer, or whether your dad is working on Wall Street, the food system is way more complicated than most of us understand."

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