#crisis food

[s0fter-sin]

people are acting like we’re saying creators shouldn’t be paid for their work; they absolutely should. and watcher already is. they have a patreon, they get sponsors, their videos regularly get millions of views which gives them ad revenue, they sell merch; they are getting paid. feeling indignant and disappointed that they’re asking us to pay for content we were already getting for free isn’t entitlement, it’s expected. ​they wanted to make bigger produced shows and now their budget can’t sustain it, that’s not on the viewer to make up for

[ovegakart]

NONE OF THESE MFS CAN DRIVE

[chronicallycouchbound]

Let People On Food Stamps Eat Hot Meals

Particularly on cold, rainy days (like today), while unhoused, sometimes all I want is a hot meal but it’s so difficult (if not impossible) to cook outside in the rain.

On top of this, I’m physically disabled and chronically ill. Medically, I’m supposed to have assistance with making meals as part of in home care. But I can’t get in home care without a home.

I just finished making dinner for my partner and I, it took 2 hours (3 if you include clean up). My knees are burning, my back is aching in it’s core, I feel like I’m about to faint, and all my joints are screaming. But it’s the only way we could have a hot meal today and get some protein, which is vital for our health conditions.

People judge us for using what little funds we have on McDonald’s some days. Because sometimes, it’s the only hot meal we’ve had in days. And sometimes I’m physically unable to stand, move, and do all the actions needed to cook. Or I faint while cooking. Or the rain doesn’t let up. Or we don’t have access to a kitchen for the day. Or the fire danger outside is too high. The list goes on.

Without my own kitchen to use, I don’t get to sit down while I cook (right now, everything is wet from the rain), I can’t meal prep, I can’t stock up on freezer meals, I can’t use an oven or a microwave to reheat leftovers, I can’t just reach across the kitchen for a fridge item (we have a small amount of fridge space friends let us use), everything about cooking is exponentially harder.

And even if I had 24/7 access to an accessible, full kitchen, it’s not even physically safe to cook my own meals. Even then, having a pre-made, hot, ready-to-eat meal could keep me safe and give me independance.

And all the safety needs for hot meals aside, emotionally, hot meals are also life saving and comfort. Meals are a part of community, culture, love and art.

So many gatherings we have as communities center around food. Most people in the United States would think of ones that often hold great value to Western culture. Mother’s Day breakfast. Spaghetti fundraisers. Wedding cakes. Birthday dinners. Bake sales. Carnival treats. BBQs on weekends. Holiday roasts. Lunches with friends. Casseroles brought to grieving neighbors.

Our world revolves around food.

I firmly believe that no poor person could ever “take advantage” of a system designed to feed us by using food stamps on hot food. This restrictive rule serves no purpose but to punish the most vulnerable of poor people— unhoused, disabled, and those of us living in unsafe conditions.

It also serves to restrict our access to joy and comfort. The joy can sometimes come from the food itself, but also the joy from having shared experiences solidified by the sounds of laughter and forks clinking on plates. The comfort can sometimes also be from the food itself, but also the experience of being loved and cared for while your close friend brings you pizza from your favorite restaurant because you lost your drive to eat three weeks ago and they worry about you. They know you. Those slices of pizza bring color back into your world.

Poor people deserve to be able to have the comfort, joy, and care that goes into a hot meal. We deserve the autonomy to choose foods that are best for us ourselves. We deserve to be able to eat in ways that are accessible to us.

Above all, we deserve access to hot meals.

Originally posted to my blog on 6.3.22

[reality-detective]

"If you control the food, you control the people. That's ultimately the end goal."

All around the world, unelected globalist bodies like the WEF and UN are waging war against farmers, in an attempt to seize control of the global food supply, under the banner of UN Agenda 2030—as detailed in a must-watch new documentary titled 'No Farmers, No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs?' 🤔

[cavalierzee]

Gazan Expresses Joy After Receiving Bread

A Palestinian from northern Gaza expresses his joy getting white bread for the first time in five months amid the ongoing Israeli war of starvation on the region.

. Source: Quds News Network

[heynhay]

klance but they traded jackets and lance is absolutely clowning on keith’s stupid fucking cropped monstrosity but keith can’t retort because lance’s jacket is so comfortable and it smells like him and and and and—

you guys are good at this hang on

[beardeddetectivepaper]

[gobcorend]

"How, then, does one become an activist?

The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others inside us. We are all moved by injustice and discrimination. We are all, inside, concerned human beings. We all want to give more than to receive. We all want to live in a world where solidarity and companionship are more important values than individualism and selfishness. We all want to share beautiful things; experience joy, laughter, love; and experiment, together."

--- On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

[atticdemosdyke]

I just found this brilliant article from hrw about the food crisis which is very much STILL HAPPENING in gaza, in case anyone forgot. Read it. Read others. Spread the word. We cannot stop talking about this.

[saltlog]

[thegayhimbo]

Sudan: UN warns that Darfur risks starvation and death if aid isn't allowed in | AP News

[hexxter]

If Player2 getting their memories back isn’t an emotional breakdown I don’t want it

Also my Chirithy won’t be there right.. 😔

[possessable]

"Animal Crossing but with Existential Dread" is one of my faovorite genres of project by the way , i have at least two or three stories like that, here's some Bnuuy Siblings i ddesigned for one

might write it sometime (soon?) the premise is basiscally just "what if when the player wanted to take a break from playing they'd just leave the game paused for days at a time instead of saving and exiting like they're supposed to , which has the negative side effect of randomly freezing all the characters for prolonged periods and also they're still fully aware during this and kind of just have to stand there doing nothing until the game is unpaused and they can move again," cue The Horrors for these two

[soggy-fishsticks]

[rottenpumpkin13]

Youre so right for the CC Seph losing weight thing because all he was eating was carbs and sweets and I raise you the terrible depression meals of:

Plain pasta + a concerning amount of pepper just to feel something. No other flavors.

Udon takeout. Third night in a row.

MRE ration bars, would they taste better dipped in nutella? No.

Forgot to get dinner because this was the day reserved for going over to Angeal's and eating something he cooked, drank a red bull Zack handed him. Regret.

Entire box of cheerios dry, directly out of the package at 4 am.

Ramen brewed in pedialyte. It was a Mistake to use the strawberry flavored one.

Normal ramen, with egg, it meets the protein quota.

This blueberry muffin is healthy! It has a fruit! Turk shadowing him, don't look so disapproving!

These vitamin gummies and a coffee are basically a nutritionally complete breakfast, right?

Someone with cooking skills make him eat a vegetable.

To accompany the meals he forces himself to eat are unsavory thoughts behind each one.

• The plain pasta with pepper resembles Angeal's aglio e olio, so he remembers the night he first ate it at 2 AM, sitting on Angeal's kitchen counter while Genesis reads to them.

• The Udon would taste fine on its own, but every bite is thick and unappetizing as he sits alone on his kitchen floor. He wonders where Angeal and Genesis are, and if they've eaten that day.

• The ration bars taste exactly like the ones the three of them ate on that mission four years ago, the ones that tasted like sand that Angeal choked on. Sephiroth remembers laughing so hard he cried.

• He's not sure why he's awake at 4 AM, but Angeal's voice rings at the back of his mind asking if he's eaten something. He replies back that no, he hasn't eaten in two days. So he reaches for the box of Cheerios.

• He starts to get creative with ramen, because maybe that'll trigger his hunger. He has to eat something. He's starting to thin out rather quickly.

• He eats the blueberry muffin and then sits in silence as he feels the aftertaste coat his tongue. He starts to feel sick. It faintly tastes like dumbapples.

• So much coffee. He's lying to himself if he thinks adding vitamin gummies are going to cancel out the caffeine he's consuming just to stay awake.

• Zack has a tupperware container filled with spring rolls. He pushes it towards Sephiroth one day during their training session.

"Try it!" he says, "It's Angeal's recipe."

Sephiroth knows. He can smell it. He thinks he's gonna throw up.