Wednesday, November 22. 2006
"Please, sir, may I have some more food security?"
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its annual report on access to food. Basically, it shows the level of hunger in America. But in one of this administration's more Orwellian moves, hunger is now "very low food security".
Whatever. Hunger is hunger, and the United States has entirely too much of it for a nation as wealthy as ours.
Want to do something about it? Give to your local food bank (link is to Second Harvest's zip code directory).
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Orwellian indeed. You can tell those guidelines are drafted by people who probably have no clue what serious hunger is or what it looks like. Let the powers that be starve for a few months and see how "food insecure" they feel. That's just wrong. Then again, I don't know what is worse, the Orwellian relabeling or the fact that in such a wealthy nation people simply choose to let fellow human beings starve.
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