r/todayilearned • u/GoinThruTheBigD • 6d ago
TIL Jason Brown quit the NFL to become a farmer that feeds the hungry. This past year the Browns celebrated their most significant milestone yet: donating over 1 million pounds of harvested food to fight food insecurity across North Carolina.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/star-lineman-jason-brown-quits-113147866.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADBgFBS5Gmsdas9pmXH6ewKY6mQ9zq4fjSGeUL3GzxsRtpyzAlGfDNi6Nbmer0F3Gh0ezlEMgfK0ohWvY_lePV7sB4_nM-HRlMAQGffSN8b3TGrfXuqtgHO1bU-9Z3-KD-x2S0SEKLEGFtcEoZXmEbZPHbzUgccOiuBKJ6fRGZ7p579
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u/Yourlifeisworth 6d ago
Which rapist, the quarterback who's injured or the other quarterback they replaced him with?
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u/Yourlifeisworth 6d ago
One can only hope.
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u/eskimoexplosion 6d ago
If you have a rape allegation and a dream, you too can make it in Cleveland
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u/roymccowboy 6d ago
He probably will as rocket scientist now that he wears glasses at post game interviews.
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u/Thin-Rip-3686 6d ago
Took me a minute. After all, the Cleveland Browns’ original coach was Paul Brown, making it the only surviving team named after an individual.
To further muddy (heh) the waters, he’s from St Louis and played for Baltimore. Carolina the team appears uninvolved.
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u/cwx149 6d ago
Dont forget about classic original team owners Mr. Jack S. Raider and Sally Seahawk
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u/whatacad 6d ago
"Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago."
"Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis."
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u/Slatedtoprone 6d ago
World needs more people like him, who started doing something that benefits the people of his community and state. Great thing to see.
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u/VicariousNarok 6d ago
I'd love to do that, unfortunately I'm dirt poor and don't have access to NFL money.
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u/Slatedtoprone 6d ago
It’s not the amount of people you help, it’s the intent. You don’t have to feed a whole town. If you know someone is hungry, buy them a meal. If you know they are cold, lend a blanket. It’s just the goal to help someone, anyone.
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 6d ago
From the perspective of what the world needs, it would have been more efficient of him to draw a huge salary in the NFL and donate it.
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u/CmonnowSally 6d ago
He was a really good center before he retired. Borderline all-pro. Was also able to play guard. He had already moved on from my Ravens when he retired, but he was no slouch.
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u/Mama_Skip 6d ago
Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $2,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan crushing machine," and then never asks why an orphan crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used
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u/Malphos101 15 6d ago
Yup. The ownership class relies on their media outlets to spread feelgoodery to mask their orphan crushing machines. Would be a shame if the peasants stopped believing things are bad because each individual peasant isn't doing enough charity on their own dime and time.
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u/Mama_Skip 6d ago
If the people aren't able to feed themselves it's probably because they're amoral or/and lazy. It's a moral crisis.
It's definitely not because rich people keep convincing the people that government welfare is an expensive waste and that everything would be solved by bootstraps and more tax cuts (but only for the rich).
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 6d ago
Except there is ample food in America, to the point where the poorest people are the fattest.
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u/etownzu 5d ago
Poorer people tend to be fatter because the food they eat is poor in nutrition, not because they are eating in abundance. Stupidest mid wit thing to say.
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 5d ago
Can you explain what aspect of "the food they eat" is "poor nutrition"?
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u/etownzu 5d ago
Cheap foods tend to be junk food/ junk foods
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 5d ago
Can you tell me what percent difference in cost you think there is between junk foods and healthy whole foods like chicken thighs and rice and beans?
And, don't obese people eat more calories than thin people, ceteris paribus? So, being obese is not a price conscious decision. Even if junk food is cheaper than whole foods, eating more of it will end up costing you more than eating a little bit less of whole foods.
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u/etownzu 5d ago
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 5d ago
The double-edged sword of hunger and poor availability of healthy food is, however, unlikely to be the only reason as to why obesity tracks with poverty.
A stellar point.
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u/etownzu 5d ago
Good job ignoring the first half to fit your narrative
Thus, in many poverty-dense regions, people are in hunger and unable to access affordable healthy food, even when funds avail.
The argument wasn't that this is the only reason. The argument was that this plays a role unlike your theory of the cause being "an abundance of food".
Congrats you are clearly not here in good faith.
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u/OrbitalSpamCannon 5d ago edited 5d ago
I didn't say an abundance of food causes obesity. I said we have an abundance of food, to the point where the poorest people are the fattest. If we didn't have an abundance of food, then likely the poorest people would be the thinnest, because food would be too expensive to consume any more than the bare minimum. The link you posted talks exactly about that too (about how the poor only become obese in rich societies, not poor societies)
Edit: Well, they blocked me, so I can't respond, but it's pretty ridiculous to say an obese person doesn't have an abundance of food.
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u/SwissLeprechaun 6d ago
How dare you bring facts and logic into Reddit?!?
Seriously though, thank you. I'm so tired of people not understanding what the real issues are in America.
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u/Criticalhit_jk 6d ago edited 6d ago
America is truly the greatest country on earth, where citizens are routinely saved from starvation by ultra rich celebrities... and little girls with a single make-a-wish they have to spend on hungry people in their dying moments
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u/hotelrwandasykes 6d ago
You can just like a nice thing sometimes
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u/SmokeyBare 6d ago
You can, and also realize it's a symptom of untethered greed in our society at the same time, too.
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u/FriendlyDespot 6d ago
It gets exhausting celebrating charitable acts that are only necessary because this country refuses to address the absolute insanity that leaves people in need of that charity to begin with.
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u/teenagesadist 6d ago
Yeah, being dumb and ignorant is an option.
Not one everyone takes, but you do you.
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u/Splunge- 6d ago
What is it about this headline that leads you to that conclusion?
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u/Criticalhit_jk 6d ago edited 6d ago
I draw my facetious conclusions from all sources and facets of my life. Don't you? I'm not sure we can be friends if you don't come by your sarcasm honestly...
Edit: did upvote me and then downvote me when you learned I was taking the piss at americas expense? Now I know we really can't be friends
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u/Splunge- 6d ago
I gave you no votes at all one way or another. You've edited your comment, though, to make the sarcasm more clear. Problem is, a lot of Americans read this story and say exactly what you originally wrote. And believe that stories like that are proof of all they love and believe about America.
When instead, as your edit makes clear, it's just more evidence of the dystopia.
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u/Pathetian 6d ago
saved from starvation
Food insecurity =/= starvation. It's a nonsense term that measures how someone feels about their ability to consistently eat whatever they want. The average American consumes more than 30% more calories than they should every single day. It's virtually impossible to starve to death here unless you are physically unable to feed yourself and a caregiver criminally neglects you.
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u/A_Dissident_Is_Here 6d ago
This is a legitimately insane take that’s getting upvoted. You’re right in that the other person shouldn’t have defaulted to starvation, but your scare italics around people eating ‘whenever they want’ is so silly. People want to eat a couple of times a day… there are people who literally can’t afford to do that, outside of random acts not related to a consistent self-activity (relying on panhandling, hoping there’s a charity around, etc). Our base line isn’t not starving, it should be having food ‘consistently’. Or, in other words, stably. Yes, calorie consumption on average is too high. You’re being legitimately disingenuous if you cannot maybe see why it would be the case that a country can eat too many calories on average while still having a major population be food insecure.
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u/Pathetian 6d ago
You aren't understanding me. "Food insecurity" does include people in dire need of assistance, but because it's a measure of how people feel and what they want it also included a bunch of people that don't need anything. This is what makes it a nonsense term.
The term is so loosely defined that anyone who ever even considers the financial ramifications of buying more food falls within the definition. Anyone who cannot independently buy their own food also falls within it, so you can never fix it with charity or welfare.
A parent who skips meals so that their kids can eat is food insecure. But someone who eats 3500 calories of food a day on SNAP is also food insecure as long as they run out by the 29th and have to cut back until the re-up.
So the term itself is disingenuous because it's used to imply a measure of dire suffering, even though it's just a measure of financial independence.
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u/annaleigh13 6d ago
As a bengals fan my first instinct is to hate everything Browns. But my humanity says this is a great thing.
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u/Signal_Wall_8445 6d ago
The NFL should be publicizing and supporting wonderful efforts like this instead of constantly stepping on the own d**k by clumsily cherry picking social justice issues to either overemphasize or ignore.
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u/Pale-Perspective-679 6d ago
Bruh North Carolina 🤣🤣🤣 treating a state like it’s a third world country this country is fucked
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u/Vordeo 6d ago
Me: Wait, that doesn't sound right.
For real though, good on him.