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Francisco Bautista, 2, stands next to a nearly empty refrigerator. His mother days that pride keeps her from accepting welfare. Twelve million children go hungry.

Kashmiere Perkins, 2, is weighed and measured at Boston City Hospital's Failure to Thrive Clinic. At 20 pounds, his weight is equivalent to that of a healthy 9-month old.

'Most of America is 90 days from where I am,' says Brian Brunner, who is out of work and lives with his wife Debra, son Thomas, 6, and five other children and a dog in a 1971 station wagon. Brunner lost his $66,000 job as a computer operator.

Pauline Coleman, 76, strolls out to her shed in the Missouri hills. 'Once in a while for a treat we have meat … I guess it was two years ago when we last had it.'

On the Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota, almost everybody qualifies for food stamps or commodities.

Food stamps are a necessity for many families. Charlyne Thomas and her children are among them. 'I am hittin' rock bottom,' she says from a tiny slum apartment in Los Angeles.

Ella Mae Sale on the Torreon Reservation in New Mexico, drinks water fetched from 2.5 miles away. Her family of seven does not get food stamps because the father make s$450 a week in the Northwest.

Tapioca pudding goes flying in a food fight held at Playoffs in Weymouth, one of several food fights held occasionally at a Boston- area pubs.

A New Yorker is forced to find dinner in a West 16th Street dumpster. Thirty million Americans go hungry .

A fruit tart is used for entertainment during the Strawberry Festival in Oxnard, California. America wastes enormous quantities of food -- 20 percent as it moves from farm to table, and then 15 percent after it is bought.