On November eleventh Layne, Sophie and I watched and finished a 2012 documentary called A Place at the Table. The story focuses on three American families struggling to feed their families. The film was very good at proving that the United States have not been working that hard to try to fix this ongoing problem of hunger. The film also did a very good job about setting a line between hunger and food insecurity. When most people thing of hunger, they think of the starving kids in Africa. Well that is not only right but hunger could be right in your neighborhood. As Barbie Izquierdo, one of the people the film focused on, said, “Hunger; it’s right here in the United States. It could be right next door and you would never know because people are too afraid to talk about it.” Barbie is saying that hunger could be your best friend or your neighbor, because people are scared to admit they are living hungry or they are food insecure. Over 50 million Americans are either hungry or are food insecure or live in food deserts. Food deserts are areas that don’t have a nice grocery market around them. Most people who live in food deserts, have to drive and spend money on gas rather than their food. The people the film focused on used these cards called food stamps. Food stamps are ways to get food for free. You have to qualify by having to have a job that pays under a certain limit. Food stamps are a really good way to get food if you have food inscurity. But if you are over it by any amount, it stops, you don’t qualify anymore. Even if you are a couple cents over. 
