They're not hungry, they have "Low Food Security"
The U.S. government has the audacity to tweak its own terminology and declare that all Americans in our country are not "hungry" anymore. Instead of referring nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger, the government has classifed them as people with "very low food security."
This month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 35 million Americans had difficulty feed themselves in 2005 and of those some 10.8 million went hungry.
Last year's report labeled families who don't get enough to eat as having "food insecurity with hunger."
This year's report has now labeled those same families as having "very low food security."
Supposedly the National Academies, which advises the government on science and medical issues, recommended the change.
Shame on them! Shame on the people who are trying to re-word or trying to skew phrases with different semantics.
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