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"Chances are, if you&amp;#039;re looking for recipes on Delish.com, you&amp;#039;re probably not too worried about where your next meal is coming from or whether you have enough food on hand to get through the month. Eleven percent of Americans aren&amp;#039;t quite so confident. According to statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture, of more than 307 million Americans, roughly 35.5 million are faced with what is referred to as &amp;quot;food insecurity.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s the equivalent of the combined populations of Alabama, Arizona, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Maine, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. Food insecurity means that a person \u2014 maybe someone you know \u2014 doesn&amp;#039;t have enough money or other resources to ensure a regular supply of nutritious food to their table. They may skip meals to stretch the supply in their cupboards, or eat less;   they may not even have the choice whether to skip a meal or not.  Feeding America \u2014 formerly known as America&amp;#039;s Second Harvest \u2014 has designated September as Hunger Action Month and is asking Americans to give something up and donate the money they&amp;#039;d spend otherwise to help feed someone. Maybe you spend $3 per day on a latte on your way into work or, perhaps like me, you spend a lot of money on cookbooks. I spend quite a bit of time browsing through my favorite used book stores searching for old cookbooks, which typically cost around 10 bucks. According to Feeding America&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Give a Little&amp;quot; calculator, that $10 will buy 30 meals. Thirty meals. It took me no more than a minute to donate that $10 using Feeding America&amp;#039;s easy-online donation page. How many meals will a couple of DVD rentals buy? Feeding America helps support a network of 200 member food banks across the United States, helping to supply 2 billion pounds of food every year to Americans struggling to feed themselves and their families. They advocate for programs and services to help in the fight against hunger and malnutrition in the United States at the local, state, and federal levels.  Feeding America, along with the Cheesecake Factory, Fortune magazine, Macy&amp;#039;s, Microsoft, Sony, and United Airlines, is sponsoring events around the country to raise money and awareness during September. I plan to attend a fundraiser at Macy&amp;#039;s here in San Francisco next week; you can find events planned for your area, as well. At a time when so many of us are worried about trans-fats, artificial hormones and antibiotics in our food, and sustainability, it&amp;#039;s important to remember that many of are suffering because of something far more basic: not having enough to eat. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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