Report: Hunger affected 12 million families in 2003 (CNN)

CNN ^ | 11/20/2004 | AP

[frankenMonkey]

More than 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday.

[frankenMonkey]

more silly statistics, this from our own Department of Agriculture. Let me see...12 million families X 4 family members = 48 million people worried about "feeding everyone."

[Snardius]

Hunger "affects" me about 10:30 every morning. Those who wrote about this seem to want to blow everything out of proportion...

[traderrob6]

hmmmmmmmm wonder what % of the household income of these families is spent on drugs/alchohol?

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Happened to our family just last week. We went through the drive-thu, and forgot a happy meal for one of the kids. We had to worry about feeding everyone. It sucks to be a statistic.

[Just mythoughts]

How appropriate a seed planting for Hillry's theme, "what did Jesus say about the 'poor'"

[clyde asbury]

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . hundreds of millions of people (including Americans) are going to starve to death.
Paul Ehrlich, Population Bomb, 1968

This is probably a required text in j-school.

[Capitalism2003]

I didn't have breakfast today...Technically, I qualify for this statistic. Time for a pizza.

;)

[hinckley buzzard]

Amazing. You now are counted as part of the "hunger in America" problem even if you only so much as worry about it.

Sheesh. BTW, many freepers may not remember that this "issue" was fuelled in 1969 by a fraudulent and dishonest TV special, aired by, you guessed it--CBS.
Coulda been Gunga Dan but I really don't recall the anchor involved.

[yankeedame]

But..but..but...I thought obesity was an out-of-control-epidemic here in the US.

[cripplecreek]

Am I the only one having trouble consolidating the idea that Americans are both starving to death and too fat at the same time?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The numbers are probably correct! They are all dieting.

[Dilbert56]

It's right there in the Constitution: The Government will ensure no one has to worry. Anyone not seeing that must be a "strict constructionist".

[yankeedame]

How appropriate a seed planting for Hillry's theme, "what did Jesus say about the 'poor'"

Didn't Jesus say something along the line of "The poor will always be with you."
And didn't He relate the parable of the landowner who hired three day workers throughout the day, and when it came time to pay them he gave them all the same wages. When the two that had worked longer than the last one hired [who had only been hired and hour or so before] complained about the unfairness of it, didn't He have the landowner reply (in so many words), "It's my money and I can do with it what I want."

[coloradan]

Lots of millionaire Hollywood liberals worry about feeding everyone. Ergo, there is hunger in America.

[Just mythoughts]

Well Hillry never cared what Jesus had to say, just her method of operation,perverting the scripture and she does have to appear moderate.

"IF" Hillry really cared what Jesus had to say her life would be on a totally different track, she would have never persecuted those she hates most in this world the "VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY".

[MisterRepublican]

This story is so much crap.

[hosepipe]

[ More than 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday. ]

I guess FAT PEOPLE GET HUNGRY TOO....
LoL......

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I own my own business, so I work long hours. I realize their may be hungry people in this country. Do you think I could get one of those 48 million hungry people to help clean my house? do you think any of my working friends could? Nope. I cleaned houses to get through college. Yet, no one wants this job now...and I pay way more than I got back then ( even with inflation). Puhleeze!
Don't tell me about "hungry " people. Why should anyone get off their a..s early in the morning and do something they don't feel like doing when Hillary promises them more of my money?

I got up early to clean today....and I'm waiting for "Help is on the Way!"

[R. Scott]

I am very leery of these types of “studies”.
We had one in Hampton several years ago that claimed hunger was rampant in Gloucester County – because many people below the poverty level did not avail themselves of food stamps. They didn’t take food stamps because they were farmers who grew most of their own food.

[uncbob]

And here every time I turn on TV there are ads for diet programs and I keep hearing OBESITY is the number one problem for children