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You say this: ==Everything I have read and experienced suggests this is not true.== I only see examples of things you have read. What about the experiences yo

You say this: ==Everything I have read and experienced suggests this is not true.== I only see examples of things you have read. What about the experiences you mentioned?

DoreenMichele 7y ago
Oh sorry. I was homeless for nearly six years. I've gone to soup kitchens, been on food stamps, gotten food from food pantries, eaten free meals at churches, gotten handouts of food from random strangers. I've gotten by at times on very little food and I've been seriously underfed at times. But there was usually an element of choice because soup kitchens, etc, aren't very good in terms of cleanliness and food quality and I have a serious medical condition. Being picky about cleanliness and food quality is a large part of how I stay off the drugs I'm supposed to be on. But in absolute terms, food is usually available. A lot of it is food that doesn't do a good job of meeting my special needs, so I often pass on the opportunity and prefer to buy my own, but actual literal starving to outright death seems rather unlikely to me. I worry much more that I will be forced to resort to eating things that will aggravate my very serious medical condition. That isn't intended to dismiss the concerns of people saying "That's been sold out where I live." But if they go hungry, I think it will be more due to comfortably well-off people hoarding food irrationally rather than due to absolute lack of food stores in the country per se. Maybe some of the Preppers can come out of the woodwork and give a portion of their hoards to food pantries and soup kitchens. Some of them have several years worth of food stuck away. It would make more sense to try to reduce the degree to which society comes apart at the seams than to sit on it waiting for things to start looking like a zombie apocalypse movie. Edit: see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/county_extension_services/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/cou...

You say this: ==Everything I have read and experienced suggests this is not true.== I only see examples of things you have read. What about the experiences you mentioned?

DoreenMichele 7y ago

Oh sorry. I was homeless for nearly six years. I've gone to soup kitchens, been on food stamps, gotten food from food pantries, eaten free meals at churches, gotten handouts of food from random strangers. I've gotten by at times on very little food and I've been seriously underfed at times. But there was usually an element of choice because soup kitchens, etc, aren't very good in terms of cleanliness and food quality and I have a serious medical condition. Being picky about cleanliness and food quality is a large part of how I stay off the drugs I'm supposed to be on. But in absolute terms, food is usually available. A lot of it is food that doesn't do a good job of meeting my special needs, so I often pass on the opportunity and prefer to buy my own, but actual literal starving to outright death seems rather unlikely to me. I worry much more that I will be forced to resort to eating things that will aggravate my very serious medical condition. That isn't intended to dismiss the concerns of people saying "That's been sold out where I live." But if they go hungry, I think it will be more due to comfortably well-off people hoarding food irrationally rather than due to absolute lack of food stores in the country per se. Maybe some of the Preppers can come out of the woodwork and give a portion of their hoards to food pantries and soup kitchens. Some of them have several years worth of food stuck away. It would make more sense to try to reduce the degree to which society comes apart at the seams than to sit on it waiting for things to start looking like a zombie apocalypse movie. Edit: see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/county_extension_services/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/fn3jno/cou...