That was an excellent one.

Thanks for the memories!

Fantastic!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Excellent show. An eye opening documentary about the short falls of our ability to provide adequate nutrition for some our most needy members of society. If we all would take a close look, not just at own lives but our friends , family or even our neighbors, we may find how rampant this problem is. Our school lunch program is not perfect and it needs some help. The only way it's going to get help is by people who are willing to fight and do what needs to be done. What if we were to minimize the administration cost, the labor cost and put more money to the cost of a nutritious complete meal. Work as a collective group to end this problem. Please volunteer, make a difference in the lives of our children, give what can be given, care for the well being of the children and our future generations.

Great subject for a documentary but I struggle so hard with the solutions given. Only the second grade teacher was even close to touching on the subject. We have to teach children at a young age to GROW their own food. Some of these families are living in areas where they say they can not buy fresh produce yet the grass around their house is 6 inches tall. Start small,lettuce seeds... that's how I learned. I can feed my family for three dollars a day on huge veggie sandwiches. Sure, it's not going to solve the problem over night but kids, parents, teachers just need to change their idea about what REAL food is. Edible landscaping in schools with kids learning about seeds! Charities handing out cookies and sh*t snacks is only making the problem worse. Don't ask Washington for help!! You're never going to get it. We need churches and charities to give people seeds. Learn to grow your own food, harvest the seeds, and you will never be hungry again.

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (dir. Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush) A brilliant documentary that confronts America's perennial inability to deal with the widespread problem of hunger in our nation. Ronald Reagan slashed federal programs that were beginning to solve the issue by the late 1970's, however he cynically felt that the matter would best be solved by relying on good old fashioned Christian charity. And it didn't work then, and it doesn't work now. Millions of Americans struggle daily with 'food insecurity' (you don't know where your next meal is coming from), and it seems that our leaders are convinced that the poor have it far too easy, and are just too dependent on the largess of the American tax payer. However, the film does expose the pertinent fact that America's richest food corporations were able to continue to enjoy 100% of their lavish federal government subsidy, yet the food stamp budget was severely cut to pay for a program to end childhood hunger. So much for our so called 'Christian' policies, and the film provides yet another reason for me to continue to be a proud secular humanist.

I saw A Place at the Table when it was at Sundance in 2012 and going under the title Finding North. I think that the filmmakers are well-intentioned, but the argument presented in this film is plainly absurd. During the Q and A after the film, the director was asked by an audience member if he was correctly stating her position, that the source of the problem of "food insecurity" was Washington's Faustian bargain with big agriculture, and she replied that it was. Then came the follow-up question: "Why in the world would you trust for solving this problem the very people responsible for causing it?" The audience -- do remember that this is Sundance, not known as a bastion of conservatism -- burst into applause. The only organization that seem to really be making a difference in the film was a private church with an extensive food outreach program. Don't be misled. The problem this film addresses is not starvation, or even hunger, it is what they term "food insecurity." No one in the film deals with the true source of the problem, which is the breakdown in the family, and the replacement of parental responsibility with government subsidy, which cyclically feeds the breakdown of families. Kudos to the filmmakers for highlighting the involvement of that local church -- I hope it made it into this final version of the film -- because if more churches were involved in the lives of the hurting people in their communities, they could provide a whole lot more than anonymous food stamps. They could create community, educate about nutrition, and give people benefiting ownership of the program so that they no longer had to feel dependent all the time. The film will tug at your heart -- just don't forget to engage your brain.