A lot of research has gone into understanding what makes people feel hunger. The feeling of "hunger" is constructed in your brain based on many different inputs. Hungry people will do almost anything to get food-and for people with hungry children, you can delete the "almost." Hunger is a powerful force-powerful enough to make a question like "If a hungry man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, is it really theft?" a genuine ethical conundrum. I think the answer, though, comes down to hunger.
More focus on the people (poor people are stupid, poor people are ignorant about good nutrition, poor people are lazy, poor people are too busy working two jobs to get enough exercise, poor people are too tired after working two jobs to get enough exercise, poor people don't have access to fitness centers, poor people don't have access to kitchens, poor neighborhoods have lots of fast-food restaurants and few farmers markets). Some focus on the food (healthy food is expensive, empty calories are cheap). I've read a lot about the topic, and there are a lot of answers. I've thought about it a lot in the years since then. Now, the fat person going to the food bank is a cliche. Poor people being skinny was already getting to be unusual twenty years ago, or I probably wouldn't remember it so vividly. There were three of them-man, woman, child-and all three were skinny. As I locked my car, they took the handful of change they got for the cans, and headed in ahead of me. They were recycling a trunkful of aluminum cans. I knew they were poor, because they looked like poor folks are supposed to look: Their clothes were worn (but mended and clean). Twenty years ago, I parked at a supermarket, near where a poor family had just parked.
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