What’s next? Low apparel security for those who can’t afford clothes? Sex insecurity for those who can’t get any? Somewhere, Orwell is laughing.
‘My stomach is touching my back’
The federal government has decided to drop the word “hunger” from its vocabulary, according to a new report released by the USDA. The reason? USDA sociologist Mark Nord, the author of the report, claims that the term “hungry” is “not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey. We don’t have a measure of that condition.”
The USDA will now use the term “very low food security” to describe people who used to be considered “food insecure with hunger.” Statistically speaking, hunger will no longer exist in America.
The release of the report, however, follows five straight years of increases in the number of Americans unable to afford the food they need.
WTF – very low food security? I really hate PC. I say call a spade a spade, if it offends someone, too bad, the truth sometimes hurts. PC only serves to make those in government feel better about doing nothing and to lessen the actual meaning.
Right, gc. I would only add that the Klowns in Washington often exacerbate the problems needing solving.
this is taking a refugee/public health term which indicates that people may have access to food but can’t keep it (’cause people steal it, it gets destroyed etc) and shifting the meaning. don’t blame the term for the fact that the administration doesn’t understand its appropriate use
Another example of redundant actions to justify the job of the government employee. If things aren’t moving along then they appear to not be doing their job.
Its like making up a new law to cover a specific crime that is already covered by an existing law.
This is one of the many reason that we SHOULD NOT TAX FOOD! Food taxes are disgusting. To tax a resource that is not a luxury, that is required for life, is disgusting.
Interesting image… seems to be of a North Korean famine victim according to the properties.
Had trouble finding a shocking image of an ultra-low food security American did you?
thats the best!!!! hahahaha
low food security… lol
i’m going to use this phrase in conversations now
“Hey, honey, when’s dinner ready? My food security is low.”
So Gregg would you get rid of all tariffs on food imports?
Sounds a lot like newspeak to me.
If there isn’t a word for it, it doesn’t exist! Right?
George Orwell was perhaps wrong on the date, but not the rest it seems like.
If it is hard to find an image of an american with “low-food security” it may be because the media tends to not photograph starving people in the united states, preferring emaciated figures from some other continent. The absence of pictures says more about what we don’t want to see – not what does not exist. Don’t confuse pictures with reality – they are mediated by people taking them and the what is deemed good marketing, R Sweeney.