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Old 03-01-2012, 01:38 AM   #4
SeftyJokipl

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Has anyone else noticed that people talk about "food security" these days instead of hunger? Like, there was an article in the Washington Post a while back by a guy who operated a food charity or somesuch about how "hunger in America is real." To demonstrate he talked about how such percentage of Americans are "at risk of hunger." What does that mean?

Basically what I'm saying is that as we become less and less hungry, the goalposts get moved to make it seem like some people are still destitute. Kind of like how the poverty line adjusts itself to always encompass some portion of the population, thus making elimination of poverty by definition impossible.

Note that this article uses the same tactic to say that people who aren't in poverty are in poverty, because they could be in poverty in the future. It's absurd.
The term food security is used to better describe the issues around hunger. It doesn't mean that people are experiencing less hunger.
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