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People always think they can slip in “food insecurity” to take the place of starvation.

I said nobody starves. I didn’t say it was effortless to get a perfectly balanced diet. I said nobody starves.

And I know for a fact, since I’ve worked for these systems myself, that the people who offer free food make a concerted effort to ensure the food they’re providing is healthy and balanced.

I ate like a king (far better, in fact, than most kings who’ve ever existed), for free at the Denver Rescue Mission for example.

I’m familiar with the fact that getting leafy greens is tough in our society. Not nearly as tough as dining them in nature, but tougher than opening one’s mouth and letting them flow in. The set of circumstances collectively called “food insecurity”, which could also be aptly called “not-yet-completely-effortless access to perfectly optimal diets”, is not at all the same thing as starvation.

So stop trying to equate these things. It doesn’t help.

In case there is any doubt or lack of clarity whatsoever, this is what I’m referring to when I refer to “starvation”: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*bPvQruhbsPKhRpxUi-sAEA.jpeg