.According to Kid President, there are 5 things that make summertime awesome.
Kid President also lists at least one thing that is not awesome at all – child hunger.
In America alone, 21,000,000 kids receive free or reduced meals at school.
21,000,000 x 2 meals per day x 90 days = 3,780,000,000 meals. That's approximately 4 billion meals every 90 days.
Remember, this is just in the United States.
Conagra Foods is donating $111,000 towards feeding people.
Conagra is donating 11.1 cents for every watch, like or share of the Kid President video. (Up to 1,000,000)
11.1 cents x 3,780,000 = $419,580,000. $420 million is what it takes to feed 21 million children, 2 meals a day for 90 days at 11.1 cents per meal.
My guess is that most of us are spending more than 11.1 cents on a meal, yet somehow Feeding America says they can do it. The local food bank model sounds like a good one to setup to replace the food system in America, unless preserving the capitalistic greedy business model is a better way to live.How much money are Americans spending in grocery stores? If each of the 300 million remaining Americans spent 50 cents per meal, three times a day for 365 days, that comes out to $164 billion spent in just grocery stores for food. This is $548 per person per year. Now we know this estimate is way too low.There are so many additional ways to look at this, one is that Israel is given over $1 billion dollars per year by America. Also, the “too big to fail banks” were given amounts that make $1billion look like pocket change. There are so many other ways money is misused by America which clearly shows what many Americans think about a lot of children's physical hunger and what is awesome.
Even Kid President has sense enough to ask, "Aren't we on the same team?"
School Lunch Program Politics: Food Fight #31