U.S. President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 20, 2022.(Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
Ten percent of U.S. households in 2021 suffered food insecurity, meaning they were uncertain they could get enough food to feed themselves or their families because they lacked money or resources for food.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden has said his administration's goal of ending hunger in the United States by the end of the decade was ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together toward achieving it, reported The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday.
"I know we can do this," Biden told an auditorium full of public health officials, private companies and Americans who have experienced hunger. They were gathered on Wednesday for the first White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health since 1969.
It was the president at his most optimistic, sketching out a future where no child in the United States would go hungry, and diet-related diseases would diminish because of better, healthier food alternatives and access to vast outdoor spaces, noted the report.
"And yet, 10 percent of U.S. households in 2021 suffered food insecurity, meaning they were uncertain they could get enough food to feed themselves or their families because they lacked money or resources for food," AP cited the Food and Drug Administration.
All those changes envisioned by Biden to defeat hunger would require congressional approval, which won't come easy, or political infighting might be the major impediment to the strive to iron out epidemic, it added. ■