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You Are What You Eat: Inside America’s Refrigerators

Graphic designer/print shop owner, two-person household, founder of www.DeliverUsFromLiberals.com, 2008

School crossing guard/nursing home assistant, Austin, TX, six-person household, parents and three adult children live in an efficiency apartment, 2007

Custodian/convenience store clerk, two-person household, Ft. Wayne, IN, ate nothing but donuts for over three years, 2008

Journalist/designer/school teacher, three-person household, Austin, TX, writes the obituaries for the local newspaper, 2009

Photos © Mark Menjivar. He can be found at markmenjivar.com and 20x200.com

First published October 2009

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crazy.....at least we all have food lol

I don't know why I found this article to be so fascinating, but it was almost intimate to be looking inside of all of these fridges. Human nature is so funny to me.... exploring things that really shouldn't be all that interesting, but actually are to us.

Obviously, I'm equally as fascinated as I am disgusted by the snake in the freezer, but I'm also disgusted about how unhealthily some of these people seem to be eating. I don't want to start a culture war, but it seems to be all of the fridges from TX. I live in New England, and I wouldn't dream of eating some of the things in those fridges... my mother pretty much raised us on an organic diet, with lots of fruit and veggies, lean meats, wheat pasta, the whole nine, and it's stuck with me. However, my heart broke to look at the bare fridges of some of these people... who can't even entertain the idea of healthy eating when they can barely afford to live ($432 a month, fixed income? How can anyone live like that??), and who have to rely on junk. I mean, nothing but donuts for three years?? And yet, our country gives millions and billions of dollars to other countries to help them out. Open your eyes!!! We need help, right here in this country!!!