National Review's Thanksgiving Reflections on *Food Insecurity*

I guess if this doesn't warm the cockles of your heart, then you, like me brother and sister,ain't a real 'merkan. I dunno how much Rector spent on his dancing classes to be able to hoof his way around the fact that kids go hungry in this country and, far more to the point, he either thinks enough is being done or he is OK with that.I can only assume that his kids aren't the ones that occasionally might only get one meal a day.And haven't you noticed the poor shopping choices the poor make? And have you seen how *fat* a lot of poor people are? Don't be telling this Rector rectum that people are going hungry in this country. And if they are, then it's their own damn fault. Happy Imperialist Thanksgiving from the National Review.
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Hunger Hysteria

Examining food security and obesity in America.

By Robert Rector

This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report on household food security in the United States. According to USDA, some 12.5 million households, or roughly 11 percent of all households, experienced “household food insecurity” at some point in 2006 and some 35 million people lived in households with some form of food insecurity. Most of these households were low income. The report showed little change in food security levels in the U.S. over the last decade.

While these numbers sound ominous, it is important to understand what “food insecurity” means. According to the USDA, “food insecurity” is usually a recurring and episodic problem rather than a chronic condition. In 2006, around two-thirds of food insecure households experienced “low food security,” meaning that these households managed to avoid any disruption or reduction in food intake throughout the year but were forced by financial pressures to reduce “variety in their diets” or rely on a “few basic foods” at various times in the year. According to the USDA, the remaining one-third of food insecure households (around 4 percent of all households) experienced “very low food security,” meaning that at least once in the year their actual intake of food was reduced due to a lack of funds for food purchase. At the extreme, about 1.4 percent of all adults in the U.S. went an entire day without eating at least once during 2006 due to lack of funds for food.

Children are generally shielded from food insecurity. Around one child in two hundred experienced “very low food security” and reduced food intake at least one time during 2006. One child in a thousand went a whole day without eating at least once during the year because the family lacked funds for food.

Political advocates proclaim that the USDA reports suggest there is widespread chronic hunger in the U.S. But the USDA clearly and specifically does not identify food insecurity with the more intense condition of “hunger,” which it defines as “discomfort, illness, weakness, or pain...caused by prolonged involuntary lack of food.”
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walking around, maybe he may change his mind. Has this dumbass ever been to a food bank? Oh BTW poor food choices can be countered with education, and why is it that foods that better for nutrition are more expensive? These National Review A-holes need some French Revolution type lovin.

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Has this guy been out of his office...ever??

Hunger in USA rises by 43 percent over last five years

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/32800.php

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More than 38 million Americans go hungry, including nearly 14 million children -

Hunger in American households has risen by 43 percent over the last five years, according
to an analysis of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data released today. The analysis,
completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, shows that more than
7 million people have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999.

The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, says that 38.2 million
Americans live in households that suffer directly from hunger and food insecurity, including
nearly 14 million children. That figure is up from 31 million Americans in 1999.

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"This chronic level of hunger so long after the recession ended means that it is a man-made
problem. Congress and the White House urgently need to address growing income inequality
and the weakening of the safety net in order to get this epidemic under control." According
to the Center on Hunger and Poverty, food insecurity increased by nearly a million households
from 2003 to 2004. Rates of hunger increased in almost every single category of household during
the same time, with single mothers and those living in or near poverty continuing to suffer
from severely high rates of both food insecurity and hunger.


And that was in 2005!! I'm sure it is much worse now and escalating. :(

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