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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson on Food Insecurity and Quality in New York City
3:39:12
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3 min
Christopher Leon Johnson testifies about food insecurity in New York City, criticizing the quality of food distributed by nonprofits and food banks. He argues that the current system exploits the poor by providing unhealthy, processed foods, which he believes leads to health issues and benefits corrupt insurance companies and hospitals.
- Johnson calls for the distribution of healthier foods, claiming they last longer and would better address the hunger crisis.
- He accuses nonprofits and city council members of using food distribution as photo opportunities without genuinely addressing the needs of the poor.
- Johnson introduces the concept of a "hungry to hospitals pipeline," suggesting that providing low-quality food intentionally makes people sick to benefit the healthcare industry.
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:39:12
Yeah.
3:39:13
Hello, chair Diana Yaela.
3:39:14
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
3:39:16
I'm here to support people that are hungry in the city of New York.
3:39:20
The the issue is is that it's a lot of grandstanding that's going on with the city council and these nonprofits that they love to serve nasty food to the people.
3:39:31
They don't serve healthy food.
3:39:32
I don't know what's going on with that.
3:39:33
The city council need to start supporting more healthy food giveaways to the people that are poor.
3:39:38
Instead just giving away nasty g m o processed foods, need to start pushing more for healthy foods.
3:39:45
If you give people healthy foods it will solve the issue with the hunger crisis because healthy foods last longer than unprocessed foods.
3:39:51
But the thing is that these nonprofits only care about getting a money lined up and the way they get their money lined up is through these organizations and these donors that are backed and work hand in hand with these GMO food organizations.
3:40:09
So it's it all come in hand and this is all about medical medical research on the people that they know they can exploit and when talking about is the working poor.
3:40:18
If you give them if you give them nasty food they get sick and who we think that benefits is the corrupt insurance companies and the corrupt hospitals and everybody know that the hospitals and the insurance companies fund majority of these nonprofits and fund our speaker of the city council and our our zoning chair Kevin Riley.
3:40:37
So this is all about research.
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This is all about exploitation of the poor and that's all it's about.
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We there is a hunger crisis.
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There is a a food shortage but as a way you need to solve this by allocating more money into the foods and give it directly to the people instead of relying on these nonprofits that just see these people as photo ops and photo opportunities and exploit and allow them to just see them as like, oh, we got well, if we get these people sick with the help of the the hospitals and the nonprofits and and the big donors, they make money off the sick people.
3:41:08
So this is number of pipeline.
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I call I call the sick the the what is it?
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The the hungry to hungry to hospitals pipeline.
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This is what it is.
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It's all about getting these people sick.
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That GMO fools, it gets you sick.
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So I say this right now, support we need to support, but this this need it need a lot of change the city.
3:41:28
It needs a lot of change.
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And I feel bad for the people that, you know, that are hungry, that needs food, that don't have the opportunities that I do to try and make some money, but they they rely on these food banks and these food pantries to sustain themselves.
3:41:42
But if you go to a food pantry or any food bank or any food giveaway like it just they give me disgusting nasty foods that don't last that long.
3:41:51
Some of the food expired.
3:41:52
They have black marks on the on the bananas, but that's all done on purpose because these big time food distributors don't want the food and they know where to give it to and these nonprofits don't care because they see, oh, we give out 20,000 boxes of food in one day to the people that especially in like Corona or Elmhurst or Jackson Heights, you know, they stay, you know, these it looks good for the photo op.
3:42:13
And some these people that run for city council, they love that stuff.
3:42:16
Thank you.
3:42:16
Know I immediately know
Scott French
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this stuff.
Diana Ayala
3:42:18
I'm sorry.
3:42:18
You you I let you go I let you go over.
3:42:20
Do you think that you can submit the
Scott French
3:42:21
rest
Diana Ayala
3:42:22
your
Scott French
3:42:22
Yeah.
3:42:22
Yeah.
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:42:22
I can.
Diana Ayala
3:42:22
Okay.
3:42:23
You honey.
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:42:23
Thank you
Diana Ayala
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for coming.