Wilson County News

Hiding the facts on hunger

Editor: As a college student majoring in Dietetics at Southwest Texas State University, I completed a report on hunger. I was astonished and somewhat naive to find during my research that a published report, “Hunger in America 1968,” stated there were children in San Antonio that suffered malnutrition and starvation. I could not believe in my state, in my part of Texas, that this could be true. My further research proved it true and thus I began my career in advocating good nutrition for all children in America. Children were going home from school with no means of eating until...

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