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The historical religion programs in this collection came from the archives, library shelves, and back rooms of many organizations. Faith groups represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, and others.
This SoundTheology online archive is an independent service of Audio-Rescue.com, provided in conjunction with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH). Many of these programs would have been lost forever if not saved in this project. The originating institutions have made the recordings available for public access to further private study, scholarship, and research. They retain the rights to the recordings.
This audio collection has been chosen for inclusion in the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force Sound Collection Database.
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| Hunger and Malnutrition in America |
Speaker(s): Robert Choate, Del Shields (host) |
Description: Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1924-2009) said there were about 10 million Americans, who because of poverty, were underfed (under-nourished), or badly-fed (malnourished). In addition, he says, some were dying from these conditions. He said America produces plenty of food to provide for all our people, and also to help other nations in times of famine. He claimed we did a fair job of feeding 95% of our population, but we needed to address feeding the other 5%. He said only 6 million of the 21 million poor citizens were allowed onto a food program. He called for both private industry and the government to be involved in addressing hunger in America. Choate had moved to Washington DC in 1966 to work for The National Institute for Public Affairs, and The Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, both funded by the Ford Foundation. An engineer, and the son of the publisher of The Boston Globe, Choate used his wealth to battle what he saw as the greatest social ills afflicting America: poverty, hunger, and a lack of civil and political rights for African Americans and other minority groups. From his obituary: "Robert B. Choate Jr., gave up an engineering career to devote himself to fighting against poverty and malnutrition, seizing national attention in 1970 by telling a Senate subcommittee that most breakfast cereals barely qualify to be called food ... Choate, superficially a tweedy, bow-tied Boston Brahmin, decided in midlife that he wanted to rankle feathers. An early step was publishing a magazine in Phoenix, where he moved in the late 1950s, that deliberately irritated the city's conservative establishment. Soon he was at the center of a roiling national discussion of how to best use America's agricultural bounty to nourish its people." | Length: 58:15 | Recording Date: November 12, 1968 | Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City |
