The USDA has to deal with describing both the medical consequences and economic causes of lack of access to food.  Using the words “security” and “insecurity” is ridiculous. Those words are great ways to circumvent the real issue and create a picture of people with “insecurities,” as if they have an emotional problem or phobias instead of empty stomachs. It all comes down to economics.  No one goes hungry who has dollars for food.  That anyone in the wealthiest country on the planet does not know where their next meal is coming from or would have to choose between prescription medicine and food is an abomination.

I hope everyone will try to exercise patience with the USDA.  There’s not a lot they’ve gotten right, the Food Pyramid, for example, so it won’t be long before their Phd consultants come up with a new label.  It’s the American way.  Not changing or coming up with something good and permanent would put several people out of work and we can’t have that.  It’s the government, for God’s sake.  Now, I’m feeling a little weak from low food security, so I gotta go.

and we actually PAY someone to come up with this BS.
“Food Insecurity” smacks of an overweight beltway bureaucrat.

DO YOU SUPPOSE THOSE CHILDREN AND OLD PEOPLE WHO DO NOT GET ENOUGH TO EAT WILL NOW GAIN WEIGHT AND NOT SUFFER FROM NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES NOW THAT HUNGER HAS BEEN RE-NAMED?

A number of years ago a resolution came before the UN which said that all human beings had a right to food.  The US and one other nation voted against it.  Ronald Reagan was president and Jean Fitzpatrick was our UN representative.

Apparently, even though this administration is dedicated to spreading American democracy across the globe, it’s not particularly interested in you surviving to enjoy it.

“very low food security”...hmmm....perhaps this is newspeak in yet another sense: does putting the word “security” into the definition make everyone think about the root of all of our problems, TERROR?

Did it occur to anyone that these millions of ‘hungry’ are mostly illegal immigrants who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place?  Texas at the top of the list.....duh?

They can’t get decent jobs because they are illegal and they can’t get on welfare for the same reason. That’s not an economic problem, it’s an immigration and border security problem.

The shame belongs to Mexico, not the United States.

You could say USDA really does still report “hunger,” but you just need to look in the right place.  My favorite statistic from this new report is not the prevalence of “very low food security,” which is getting all the attention.  It’s the simple question buried deep in appendix table A-1, where the interviewer just asks respondents if they were hungry but didn’t eat.

Kudzu is edible and covers 7 million acres of the United States. It is related to sweet peas. How do I know? Food insecurity. I was hungry, and found out I had free food surrounding me.

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A GOOD HUNGER

“Hunger” as a single term
Begs another worse
The curse of pressure
Drawing nigh
The ever-dreaded “why”

Definition or description
Explanatory spam
Fuzzes up the intellect
Subverts the will of Man

So they skirt
The hardy work
Of quieting the pain
By ‘radicating any word
What fingers any blame

~ Anchorite

Since people are so distanced from their food supplies that they don’t know how food is produced, for those who have it it’s considered a disposable commodity. Tons and tons of perfectly good food is thrown away every day because they over-buy food, overload their plates, and if they don’t overeat, they simply dump it.

The abominably low minimum wage ensures that even if two people are holding down full-time jobs, they can’t drag themselves and a family above the poverty line. And women left alone to bring up families have even less chance. Poor nutrition in the early years of life causes problems for the rest of your life.

There’s no reason for this, and no excuse.

Have you ever debated a right winger?  There is no way to win.  I have even meet right wingers who have claimed there are no slums in America.  I have invited these people to just look down the streets along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.  Somehow they can’t open their eyes until the pass Flatbush Avenue going West. I guess people see what they want to see.  But I am all in favor of putting toothpicks in their eyes.

This is shameful act by a government agency. Not only it does not address how to eliminate hunger in the wealthiest nation, it refuses to even acknowledge that millions of people in this country go hungary. I assume they are all GOP appointees and they are acting in form by trying to scam the public.

Well they solved that problem. People can’t be hungry if there is no word for it. How very newspeak of them! War is peace, freedom is slavery, hunger is “multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake.” Orwell couldn’t have said it better himself. I go die now.