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Los Angeles is an outstanding city. Visit and you will find great weather, competitive teams in each sport, diverse people, and an array of different cuisines. But by no means is the city perfect. Los Angeles county also holds the largest population of food insecure individuals in the entire nation. Essentially, within 2022, 30% of people in Los Angeles county didn't know where their next meal would come from. More specifically, South Central Los Angeles is considered to be a food desert -- meaning that finding affordable and good-quality fresh food is difficult. Compare the likes of more affluent cities such as Pasadena and Beverly Hills to South Central LA and you'll find a population suffering from higher obesity rates in the latter.  LA's Green Thumb is an organization targeted at fighting food insecurity by growing local community gardens within the most impoverished areas of the city. Through these gardens, individuals are able to suppress their hunger with healthy an

The first step to a better world is addressing the issue of food scarcity. I read this article claiming if the world as whole evenly distributed all of the food produced, each person would get roughly 2,750 calories of food per day. The production and distribution of food are influenced by two main factors: human institution and natural resource endowments.  The latter focuses on the amount of natural resources a country has, thus how much a given country is able to produce for their people. Human institution concerns topics such as public policy and government to set in place production and distribution systems for the food, but they are also faced with the responsibility to import and export when needed.  The face of this issue seems easy to address. Countries with a shortage of food should import from countries with an excess, but there are many factors that complicate this. One factor being war. War prevents food from reaching certain areas involved in armed conflict, and countries

This year's fantasy football season has been a cycle of high points and extremely low points. The first two  weeks consisted of back to back losses of 40 plus points. Derrick Henry attempted each run in a loaded box, Godwin re-injured himself after rushing back, the cardinals seemed to have forgot they had a kicker they could used, and Lamb developed a case of butterfingers. The issue with me and fantasy football is that I'm a very impulsive person, so whenever a player has a remotely bad performance I have to hold back my urge to trade him. Plus, trades are exciting to make. In week 2, after not being involved in the offense I traded away T.J. Hockenson for Terry McLaurin (a.k.a. Scary Terry). With my luck, T.J.'s only great week came against me, when he decided to drop 40+ points. That loss pushed me to 1-4.  My saving grace has been the stack I have with Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown. I've repayed them by making the duo my team photo as shown below. Derrick Henry has al