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Fighting food insecurity here at home

Howard G. Buffett, president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation will keynote this weekend’s Purdue Ag Fish Fry.  Buffett tells Brownfield while one of the goals of the foundation is to address global food insecurity; he says, we also need to address food insecurity here.   “In a country that exports more corn, soybeans and wheat than anybody else in the world, one sixth of our population (50 million people) is at risk for food insecurity,” Buffett says.  “It’s disgusting.”

He says the one thing about hunger in this country that differs from others is that every single person that has any resources can do something about it.  Buffett says it’s not as daunting as saying, “How do I help someone that is 12,000 miles away in a culture that I don’t understand?”  “It’s down the street.”  Buffett thinks being proactive about fighting food security is important for the population to grasp.  “It’s something we can all add to it, in terms of the solution,” he says.

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