Analysis Of The Documentary: A Place At The Table

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I and the rest of the class took the time to see the documentary “A Place at the Table”. It depicts about the food insecurity of many impoverished Americans. The films shows how 1 in 6 Americans do not have enough to eat. Hearing those number were quite surprising, because for the richest nation on the planet, people expect the number to be a lot smaller like 1 in 50, 1 in 25, but 1 in 6 is a huge percentage of the population. Doing the math, 1 in 6 is about 17% and the current United States population is about 319 million, so according to the video, about 54.2 Americans experience food insecurity. For the United States to be the richest country in the world, that is unfathomable. I was aware that there is a hunger problem in America, however,

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