About this ebook
SOMEBODY STARVES follows Nell Carter through the receiving side of Los Angeles food recovery.
Nell understands the part of the system people rarely photograph.
The last mile.
A donor may have food.
A restaurant may have leftovers.
A luxury event may have untouched trays.
A recovery organization may even have a driver.
None of that guarantees the food reaches the person who needs it.
The pantry may already be closed.
The refrigerator may be full.
A volunteer may call out.
The route may take too long.
Public transportation may fail.
The recipient may have nowhere to store the food.
The donation may not fit dietary needs.
The neighborhood may have demand but no receiving capacity.
Through SECOND PLATE, Nell confronts the gap between abundance and access.
She sees what happens when charities are expected to stretch limited staff, refrigeration, vehicles, operating hours, and money across needs that never stop growing.
She also sees how easily people discussing hunger reduce recipients to numbers.
Nell refuses to let dignity become an optional part of logistics.
SOMEBODY STARVES is the counter-record to the donor-side story.
It explores hunger through capacity, labor, transportation, refrigeration, timing, recipient fit, dignity, infrastructure, and the uncomfortable truth that solving food waste does not automatically solve food insecurity.
Food can exist.
Money can be donated.
Organizations can care deeply.
And somebody can still miss the table.
The final mile decides who actually eats.
Where Dreams Get Elevated. Presence Equals Currency.
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About the author
VISIÖ FAME is an author, creator, storyteller, producer, executive, world-builder, and founder of POLYFLY.
Through the POLYFLY 444 Universe, she builds interconnected crime, relationship, cultural, and character-driven stories examining loyalty, betrayal, reputation, ambition, evidence, identity, survival, and the systems surrounding everyday life.
