Please… The term “food insecurity” is a buzz word. What is the definition? Who came up with it? Has there been even the simplest randomized test with a few people knocking on doors in places like LA?
There are people without electricity (some of the street people I know in Austin). Many use very simple $20 gas cook stoves and make pots of beans, rice and jalapenos. A person can live for $15/week. The best organized street people do it- and I’ve done it in the past. Not elegant but nourishing even without the backdoor handouts of no-longer-salable vegis. And what did we do with the money we saved? Cheap vodka and marijuana. I had some pretty good times out there…
Kayla de la Haye is an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. She works to promote health and prevent disease by applying social network analysis and systems science to key public health issues.
Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense, targets family and community social networks to promote healthy eating and prevent chronic disease. It also explores the role of social networks in group problem solving in families, teams, and coalitions.
De la Haye previously worked as an Associate Behavioral/Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and she is a current member of the Board of Directors of the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA). In 2018, she received the INSNA Freeman Award for significant contributions to the study of social structure. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Adelaide, Australia.