Food is an important part of everyone's daily life. It's hard to imagine life without it. However, many people don't stop to think that there are actually people who don't have food in their daily lives. There are people who go days, maybe even weeks with little or no food. Why, you may ask, do people not have food to eat every day? Well the answer is simple: money. Food is socially constructed. We tend not to want to eat animal eyes, even though they are considered a delicacy in other countries. It's our culture, our social construction of what is acceptable. Food is a social inequality due to the fact that it is not available to everyone. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Food is a delicacy, a necessity, a gift. Which is not available to everyone. People in poverty don't have much access to food and nutrition. You can see men, women and even children rummaging through garbage cans, exploring or begging for food. Usually in big cities or towns in the middle of nowhere. These people have absolutely no money or have fallen into an addiction and use all the money they get for that addiction. You can go to shelters and see all kinds of people: white, black, Hispanic, Asian. However, you see more black people, you see more men. These people don't get a medium rare steak or even a plate of chicken and rice. They receive sandwiches, bags of chips and enough meals to survive. This is not healthy eating. The Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, stated that “socioeconomic status was strongly associated with diet quality, and the gap in diet quality between higher and lower SES [socioeconomic status] has widened over time.” The lower your socioeconomic status, the greater your risk of malnutrition and/or hunger. The worst thing about this situation is that tons and tons of food are thrown away every day. Food thrown away in homes, offices, schools. All this while there are people dying of hunger on the streets. Yes, food shelters are a great help and there are also some (a handful actually) restaurants that allow people to work for their own food or that allow people to purchase a meal in advance for any homeless person to come in and have a good meal. There should be more of this implemented. Most of these people are homeless, without money, without family, for legitimate reasons. Not because they chose to be there, no one would choose to be at the bottom of the totem pole and starve and not be able to support themselves. No one wants to live day to day without knowing when their next meal will be or if they will make it to the next day. Nobody wants to live that way. So something that people, or at least I know I've wondered, have wondered: Why is food a privilege? Why are there people who don't eat every day? Why are there people who cannot afford to feed themselves, to feed their families? More than one in five children risks going hungry. Yet, among African Americans and Latinos, nearly one in three children is at risk of hunger. Why? Because African Americans and Latinos are more likely to live in poverty than any other race. They are more likely to have difficulty finding a job because employers are unwilling to hire them based on their race, ethnicity, or skin color. They fight daily against stereotypes, discrimination and segregation. Yes, segregation still exists. And unfortunately, it is leading to the end of life.