From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 06:48:28 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> I think we can safely discount the nutritional hypothesis at this
>> day and age. The only place this could happen is hardcore vegan
>> kids....
>>
> The world is more diverse than you are imagining. And it isn't all to
> the good. Many children don't leave home either with, or having had,
> any food. And not through choice. Frequently their parents get home
> from work well after dark, and leave for work long before light. And
> they still barely earn enough to pay the rent on the apartment that
> they share with two or three other families. Denial of physical
> reality is not a useful approach. (Many are worse off than that, but
> I don't personally know any of those people, so I can't speak of
> their situation.)
### Just curious - how many people are so poor in the US?
Rafal
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