Food Insecurity Research Paper

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Food insecurity is one of the most overlooked issues that college students debate. Although a large percentage of students experience some level of food insecurity, it is an issue that many people keep to themselves out of shame. It is also an issue that is overlooked because people who do not experience food insecurity are not aware of its existence. For example, in our section, half the class have not heard of the term food insecurity until it was in contention for a group project. Because of the low number of students who knew about this issue, we saw it as an indication that it is a problem that has been neglected. This means that there needs to be more of an effort to inform all students about this problem because that is the only way …show more content…

Just in our group, a few people have a variety of different stories about how they or some of their friends have had experienced food insecurity. In one of our stories, we discussed how an individual consumed chips and instant noodles for a week because they could not afford a healthy meal. Another student explained that their friend missed classes to go to the food bank because they were scared that the food bank was going to run out of what they needed by the time they were done with their classes. In other words, food insecurity can cause mental, academic, and physical obstacles that prevent us from being productive students and healthy people. School and life are stressful things that college students have to deal with on a daily basis, and worrying about what you are going to eat or if you are going to eat that day should not be an issue. Our group aims to suggest ideas about how some of these issues can be dealt …show more content…

So we had to ask ourselves, how could we change this? We believe that one way we can make an impact is by getting Gaucho FYI to talk about food insecurity. Currently, Gaucho FYI is a mandatory event that makes students see two online presentations about the party and drug scene on campus and they must also come in for one in person presentation. Our group would like to collaborate with the people who are in charge of Gaucho FYI and include food insecurity in their in-person presentation. Ideally, we would want presenters to dedicate twenty minutes of that presentation to talking about food insecurity. The presentation would start by informing everybody what food insecurity is, but most importantly, they would talk about the available options found on campus. For example, some of the resources we want them to talk about is Calfresh, Health and Wellbeing Through Food, Nutrition and Basic Skills Program and AS Food Bank. Our group decided that the essential aid that we need to stress is people signing up for Calfresh; this is because we believe that Calfresh is better financed than other programs. First and foremost, Calfresh gives students debit cards that they can use to purchase food, which is the most critical thing to fix. In Gaucho FYI the presenters would explain that Calfresh is a federal program that aims to increase student’s food budgets. Calfresh does this by giving students a

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