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Actually, people do in fact starve in the united states every year. Edit: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/

by fnid 17y ago

Actually, people do in fact starve in the united states every year. Edit: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf Page 33 says roughly 2500 people die of malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies.

lupin_sansei 17y ago
Any links to back this up?
hop 17y ago
1) Malnutrition is not starvation due to not affording food. 2) Thats a whooping 0.0009 of all deaths. 3) If you are poor in America, you are most likely to die from heart disease from eating to many $5 Pizzas and other high caloric food because it's so cheap!
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megamark16 17y ago
My sister in law's family (parents and siblings) are all on welfare and receive food stamps. They find clever ways of using their food stamps to get cigarettes, drugs and alcohol (such as "selling" them to family and friends for cash), and more often then not they run out of food by the end of the month. Her teenage sister just had a baby and they were asking around for money for formula, even though they get hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps (more money per family member then my own family spends each month on food). I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few of her family members are malnourished, but you can't force feed people.
yummyfajitas 17y ago
You need to present evidence people are starving due to poverty. There are all sorts of reasons one might die of malnutrition. Bulimia, for instance, is said to affect about 0.2% of men and 1.3% of women. Anorexia affects another 0.3% of people, mostly women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa HIV and many geriatric conditions also can cause malnutrition.
DanielBMarkham 17y ago
Which with 350 Million people comes out roughly to 7 in every million people. Meanwhile 1 out of 218 die from falling, 1 in 63,000 from legal execution, and 1 in 350,000 from a fireworks discharge. So you've got a 30,000 times greater chance of dying from falling down than from hunger in the United States. Hardly a statistically significant problem, especially since in every community I know of, multiple sources of free food are available. Sometimes dozens of sources. You could argue at these rates these are "accidental" starvations and not due to prevailing societal conditions -- perhaps due to mental illness, bad weather, age, etc. http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-facts-causes-of-death.html http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-facts-... That doesn't mean that any death is okay, just that context is important.

by fnid 17y ago

lupin_sansei 17y ago

Any links to back this up?

hop 17y ago

1) Malnutrition is not starvation due to not affording food. 2) Thats a whooping 0.0009 of all deaths. 3) If you are poor in America, you are most likely to die from heart disease from eating to many $5 Pizzas and other high caloric food because it's so cheap!

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megamark16 17y ago

My sister in law's family (parents and siblings) are all on welfare and receive food stamps. They find clever ways of using their food stamps to get cigarettes, drugs and alcohol (such as "selling" them to family and friends for cash), and more often then not they run out of food by the end of the month. Her teenage sister just had a baby and they were asking around for money for formula, even though they get hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps (more money per family member then my own family spends each month on food). I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few of her family members are malnourished, but you can't force feed people.

yummyfajitas 17y ago

You need to present evidence people are starving due to poverty. There are all sorts of reasons one might die of malnutrition. Bulimia, for instance, is said to affect about 0.2% of men and 1.3% of women. Anorexia affects another 0.3% of people, mostly women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa HIV and many geriatric conditions also can cause malnutrition.

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

Which with 350 Million people comes out roughly to 7 in every million people. Meanwhile 1 out of 218 die from falling, 1 in 63,000 from legal execution, and 1 in 350,000 from a fireworks discharge. So you've got a 30,000 times greater chance of dying from falling down than from hunger in the United States. Hardly a statistically significant problem, especially since in every community I know of, multiple sources of free food are available. Sometimes dozens of sources. You could argue at these rates these are "accidental" starvations and not due to prevailing societal conditions -- perhaps due to mental illness, bad weather, age, etc. http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-facts-causes-of-death.html http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-facts-... That doesn't mean that any death is okay, just that context is important.