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Update Feb. 25: Original story was in error and retracted. ("About 81 percent of Arkansas ...")
Baxter Bulletin (Gannett website) & AP ^ | February 24, 2006

Posted on 02/24/2006 6:15:53 AM PST by sweetliberty

Edited on 02/25/2006 1:45:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The actual source link for the story goes to a Gannett website.

Gannett Publications has requested that Free Republic allow only a title and link to be posted for any stories sourced from Gannett websites.

Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: bsalert; clintonlegacy; hungryfatpeople
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"About 81 percent of Arkansas households 'food insecure'"

You'd never know it by looking at them us.

"The national rate is 70 percent"

So it's the other 30% that has caused us to have the worst problem with obesity of any place in the world?

Anybody else think this is pure BS aimed at appropriating more federal money?

AP's original source: America's Second Harvest

1 posted on 02/24/2006 6:15:55 AM PST by sweetliberty
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To: faux_hog; FmrMarine; Former; General Albert Pike; geram; glockxgray; gogirlgo; Goldberry; ...
Arkansas ping.

To be added or removed from the Arkansas ping list, FReep mail.

2 posted on 02/24/2006 6:18:41 AM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile.)
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how could this be....the education president had all of Arkansas fed.......

(sarcasm)
3 posted on 02/24/2006 6:19:16 AM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: sweetliberty

Arkansas?.....That just means they are low on Pork Rinds and Bud.........


4 posted on 02/24/2006 6:19:25 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
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To: sweetliberty
About 81 percent of Arkansas households are "food insecure,"

When this number reaches 125% or so, I'll start becoming skeptical....

7 posted on 02/24/2006 6:20:08 AM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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My house is perpetually "food insecure".

I have two teenagers.

Food gets put away and then it mysteriously disappears.

Almost immediately.

Even in the middle of the night.

The dog and cat food seem to be immune to disappearance so far.

But I bet that if I went more than six hours without replacing said "disappeared food", that they would start disappearing, too.

8 posted on 02/24/2006 6:20:08 AM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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70% of Americans don't have "reliable access to food"?

Just how are they defining THAT?


9 posted on 02/24/2006 6:20:34 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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I guess that means 81% are too damn fat to walk to the Mc'Ds.

The fact that the AP would repeat this crap is amazing.


10 posted on 02/24/2006 6:20:40 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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The dog and cat food seem to be immune to disappearance so far.

You must not have boys. 8^)

11 posted on 02/24/2006 6:21:25 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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There are so many food banks and food giveaway programs in this country that anyone who is going hungry is an idiot, or a young child of a idiot. Most people get so much food from these places that they wind up giving some of it away.


12 posted on 02/24/2006 6:21:39 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: sweetliberty

Anybody else think this is pure BS aimed at appropriating more federal money?



Over here over here
With waving hand held high.


13 posted on 02/24/2006 6:21:59 AM PST by WKB
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Excuse me, has anyone seen the steak sauce? Who ate the chips and dip?

Is food insecurity equated to the cubic foot capacity of the fridge and how much space is unused?

Is running out of crackers for the cheese "food insecurity"

This study takes the cake!! OOPS! No cake today! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL


14 posted on 02/24/2006 6:24:19 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: sweetliberty
I've heard about a great chain of Chinese restaurants in the Little Rock area...


15 posted on 02/24/2006 6:24:26 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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Another pet project for X42?


16 posted on 02/24/2006 6:24:51 AM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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I don't understand the term "food insecure."

A bag of black beans cost 65 cents, a bag of rice, less than a dollar...for two bucks, the price of a McDonald's hamburger, you can make a meal for a family, and have a nutritious meal at that.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=2


17 posted on 02/24/2006 6:25:42 AM PST by dawn53
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I guess that means 81% are too damn fat to walk to the ...

... refrigerator??

19 posted on 02/24/2006 6:27:44 AM PST by LambSlave (The truth will set you free)
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