Jackie6h ago
In the land of Tennessee, people are homeless. People are unemployed. People are dying of chronic illness. Folks are dying because of the negligence of their leaders. And all the government can care about is transgender
Show threadJackie6h ago
I volunteer at a food pantry at my university.
One of the most popular items is baby food. Baby food.
Show threadMs. Que Banh
@burnoutqueen Same with the colleges & universities here. Always a need for baby food.
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Show threadJackie6h ago
@PhoenixSerenity I think it's a little bit absurd that people essentially rely on charitable donations to feed their kids
Show threadMs. Que Banh6h ago
@burnoutqueen Government depends on charities/nonprofits/citizens to make up the slack for their ongoing failures to help poor families. This comes up often during vent sessions with others who have worked in/with nonprofits for decades. Government forces us to fight for same grant funding pies, every year. It is a shitty system.
Show threadJackie6h ago
@PhoenixSerenity there is always room for our politicians to go after people like me, but not enough room to give women and their babies food to eat.
Show threadMs. Que Banh6h ago
@burnoutqueen It's another reason that I work hard on building more local food security & food equity.
Show threadJackie6h ago
@PhoenixSerenity the government is all eager to "protect women" and "help our own" until it comes to actually helping poor USAians and protecting women from starvation and a lack of access to period products.
Show threadJackie6h ago
@PhoenixSerenity food pantries are a testament to the failure of our society to take care of people. What corpos do is essentially dump all the stale food and overflow stock they have on churches and universities that are manned by unpaid volunteer work.
Show threadMs. Que Banh6h ago

@burnoutqueen Yes. There's too much food waste still happening, while poor hungry folks are starving.

I'm lucky to live in a place that actively creates community initiatives that reduce food waste to increase local food security. We have many different food rescue organizations, all across the city. Most of us work together to ensure foods are given to hungry folks all across the city. We rely a lot on volunteers & grants/donations to keep doing food rescue/lower food waste.

Show threadMs. Que Banh5h ago
@burnoutqueen My approach is to keep fighting the government for future changes, while actively working with others to build more alternative community sharing systems.
Show threadMs. Que Banh5h ago
@burnoutqueen I've had some Conservative chumps tell me that I'm not a parent & have no idea what kids really need.
My response was succinct:
I don't need to be a parent to know that every child deserves to be fed nutritious meals.