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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “America’s New Threat Might Be Middle-Class Hunger”
“In late March, when the Javits Center in New York was converted into a hospital, I became obsessed with protecting my parents from the coronavirus. I didn’t want my 86-year-old mother to die on a cot in a convention center. Then images of farmers ploughing their crops under gave me a new goal: to make sure my mom, who experienced chronic hunger as a child in postwar Europe, doesn’t go to bed hungry in her old age, too.” MWEG member Stefanie Condie is concerned about the tremendous strain COVID-19 is putting on our food system. Read her op-ed to learn more about why rationing may become more and more necessary, despite the…
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Sabbath Devotional :: “For I was an hungered . . .”
A couple of years ago when I was living in downtown Portland, I committed myself to a strict monthly grocery budget. On October 31st, I walked to the nearby grocery store to happily spend my remaining few dollars on chocolate chips for some Halloween cookies. As I was leaving the store, I was approached by a woman who asked me if I could give her some money so she could buy some Oreos and soda for her kids for Halloween. Being completely honest (and somewhat single-minded), I blurted out that I had just spent the last of my monthly grocery budget, and she kindly thanked me anyway. As I walked…