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30hourfamine: (1.800.732.6463) 30hfsupport@worldvision.org

Freestore foodbank:

Brian Weichert bweichert@freestorefoodbank.org (513) 482-4536 (office)

Questions to ask:


 * How many people come to the food bank on an average day?
 * Where does the food come from other than donations?
 * Do you make money through this program?
 * Are there "regulars" at the bank?
 * Do people working in the food bank get paid?
 * Where do you see the hunger percentage in 5 years?
 * Is the number of customers increasing?
 * Are there some areas more strongly affected by hunger?

Rome:


 * Starvation was a common strategy used in strikes to force surrenders. This being said, starvation could actually be done on purpose.
 * With so much of the empire joining the army, farmers did as well. This caused food production to slow as the number of farmers reduced.
 * The Roman Empire’s natural resources were depleting, so there were less crops for the farmers to grow.
 * While the Romans were dying of starvation, the barbarians. The Romans cut off the barbarians supplies of food, causing them to starve.
 * Barbarians would often attack the farms in Rome. Without farms, there was of course, less production.
 * The famine and starvation mainly just happened on the Western side of Rome. There was more food on the East.
 * Over a 400 year span, 90% of the population in Rome died through either starvation or plague. These years were 400 A.D. through 800 A.D.
 * ====The Soil in Rome was very overworked and not very fertile. The crops did not fair well.====
 * ====A small village on the Western Side was attacked by the barbarians due to its bad crops.====
 * Because of inflation, trade was a food source Rome couldn't afford any longer. Due to this, Rome had to rely even heavier on agriculture.

Today:


 * Today, 15 million children die a year of hunger. 24,000 people die every day of lack of food and starvation. By that logic, someone dies of hunger every 7 seconds. A child dies of hunger every 10 seconds.
 * Famine exists today in places such as Somalia. Today in Somalia, of the population of 7.5 million, about 3.2 million of those people are in critical condition and need food to continue living. The population there is drop at a fast rate.
 * According to statistics taken in 2010, Ohio has a higher rate of hungry people, with 16.4% of the Ohio population going hungry.
 * Starvation affects 13% of the United States. This number is expected to grow if the economy does not get any better.
 * Throughout the entire world, about 925 million people are hungry and affected by starvation.This is roughly three times the population of the U.S.
 * The extremely vast majority of the hungry comes from Asia. 578 of 925 million hungry people come from Asia. The United States only makes up for about 37 million. This number is growing though due to unemployment.
 * 74% of food banks have seen their amount of customers spike very high since 2006.
 * Poverty is the number one cause of hunger.
 * Hunger was the number 3 cause of death in 2007.
 * A few years ago, some food banks had restrictions to people who are in a poverty classification or below. Today, 83% of food banks have no restriction to who may use the service.
 * The number of children living in poverty in the U.S. is 20.6%
 * Most starving kids live in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi
 * There is a grain shortage in America
 * The most common group of people that starve are families that aren't well payed
 * 36.8 million people live below the poverty line in America, including 12.9 million children
 * In Ohio about 16% of people are below the poverty line
 * Some food banks grow their food. About 28% of food at food banks are grown by the food bank. Roughly 70% of food is given by private donors and 2% is given by the government.

. "Hunger Statistics." // 30hourfamine //. N.p., 2009. Web. 4 Feb 2012. .

. "The Collapse of the Roman Empire." // Roman Empire //. N.p., 2006. Web. 29 Jan 2012. .

Morris, Bryce. "2011 World Hunger Statistics." // World Hunger //. N.p., 23 7 2911. Web. 1 Feb 2012. .

Final Podcast w/ Kyle:

[] (Thanks to NBC Nightly News for allowing use of their theme song.)

Solution to the Problem in Rome:

I think the solution should be that we “tell” Emperor Numerius about food banks so that he can start having food banks in Ancient Rome and he should tell people that if they donate a certain amount of food they don't need to spend as much time in the army or some other form of a reward.

The government funds very little of the food banks. The United States should take more action to help these people. They could avoid this though, and create more jobs, but that is a harder task.
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