No More ‘Hungry’ Americans: U.S. Government Says

November 21st, 2006

You’ll love this. Via Breitbart:

The US government has tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with “very low food security.”

According to a report released this month by the US Department of Agriculture, roughly 35 million Americans had difficulty feeding themselves in 2005 and of those some 10.8 million went hungry.

But unlike last year’s report on hunger in America, which labeled families who don’t get enough to eat as having “food insecurity with hunger,” this year’s report referred to them as having “very low food security.”

The change in terminology has angered groups that fight hunger who say it is aimed at hiding a stark reality.

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2 Responses to “No More ‘Hungry’ Americans: U.S. Government Says”

  1. TimBuck2 says:
    November 21, 2006 at 7:45 am

    Have a look at these over at Left I on the News:

    Here and here.
    “Low food security” – doesn’t the saying go something like, if you own the dictionary, you control the discussion?

  2. Karin H says:
    November 21, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    Low food security –
    Brought to you by the people who call a spade an Entrenching Tool.

    In honor of our definitive national euphemism (ED) and our definitive national medical condition (RLS), they should just name it LFS and market a pharmeceutical for it…

    God, I hate these people.

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