Place at the Table, A

An educational, eye-opening, gut-wrenching, inspirational, 90-minute, 2012 documentary that discusses the horrific and rising problem of "food insecurity" (that is, hunger) in the U.S. where 50 million people go hungry everyday and the myriad of factors that contribute to it, including disproportionate and/or limited government subsidies in many arenas, through candid interviews with a seven-member Colorado family barely making ends meet, Pastor Bob Wilson, Sweet Charity? author Janet Poppendieck, Stuffed and Starved author Raj Patel, End Hunger Network Founder Jeff Bridges, Philadelphia working poor mother of two children Barbie Izquierdo, Food Politics author Marion Nestle, Environmental Group President Ken Cook, chef and Top Chef host Tom Colicchio, NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, school cook Ree Harris, Massachusetts Department of Health Director Dr. Alfio Rausa, Massachusetts Representative and Co-Chair of the Congressional Hunger Center James McGovern, Hidden in America 1966 film Executive Producer Jeff Bridges, Share Our Strength Chairman and CEO Bill Shore, Witnesses to Hunger Founder Dr. Marion Chilton, teachers Leslie Nichols (5th grade) and Odessa Cherry (2nd grade), Living Hungry in America author Dr. J. Larry Brown, renegade lunch lady Ann Cooper, Bread of the World President David Beckmann, cattle rancher Joe Long, and Aaron E. Henry Community Health Center Medical Director Dr. William Booker.
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