Inequal Distribution of Food Although I have never been to a food bank, I do know that food banks exist because of the vast scale of hunger and poverty. It is interesting why some people can afford the food from grocery stores or supermarkets and some people cannot? Why are there free foods available in food bank? Getting food from a grocery store is so different from getting food from a food bank. Food bank reminded me of “12 Myths about Hunger” by Holly Kavana, the article revealed 12 misunderstandings about the problems of hunger. For example, the food production in the worldwide can supply at least 4.3 pounds food per person per day, which means these foods can make most people fat (Holly 2006:01). However, the distribution of food is not like that at all in real life. Furthermore, she argues that the root cause of hunger is not natural disasters, but human institutions and policies that determine who can be immune to hard times and who will be suffering from hunger. If a homeless dead from the cold winter, should we blame the weather or the economy? The answer must be the latter (Holly 2006:02). So where you get food from has a very important message. It reflects your social class, economic status and purchasing power in your society. We tend to regard buying food from the supermarket as a daily routine, but the prices of food in the supermarket may be expensive to some people and unaffordable to the poor in the Third World societies. In contrast, getting food from food banks conveys an entirely different message that embodies one’s lower social and economic status. The majority of food in food banks is provided by others. No doubt that those donors want to assist the poor in hunger. However, this providers-and-receivers relationship revealed a cruel reality of unequal distribution of food among peoples. If you can afford fresh lobsters and steaks for you dinner or your refrigerator stores more than 4.3 pounds food every day, then you are better off than the numerous people live in the Third world countries. Free trade accounts for this unbalanced distribution of food between among peoples and nations. Brazil, for example, abounds in soybean, which is not oriented to Brazilians, but to Japanese and European. The majority of Brazilians are too poor to buy their locally growth food (Holly 2006:03). In a word, from my viewpoint, the capitalists who have control over a country’s productive resources make this country poorer and poorer.