Posted on 12/21/2006 4:32:51 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Disturbing statistics on the number of Hispanics who daily go hungry in America was released at a press conference on Wednesday by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). The national Hispanic civil rights group found that nearly one in five people lack nutritious food.
NCLR officials said in a press release that increasing federal nutrition assistance programs would help decrease the growing "food insecurity" faced by 19.6 percent of Latinos in America.
"Lack of access to resources is forcing far too many Latino families into choices no one should have to make, such as between having a roof over their heads or putting food on the table. A lack of affordable, nutritious food also has devastating health consequences, such as increasing hunger and obesity, affecting not only the Latino community but the well-being of our entire nation," Janet Murgua, NCLR President and CEO, said in the statement.
Hispanics are the largest minority in America.
BBC news reported on Thursday that one of the study's authors, Jennifer Ng'andu, said that when it came to issues of hunger and malnutrition in the U.S. that the Latino community was "practically invisible."
According to the study, although lack of food is more of a problem for Hispanics than for whites in America, it is still African Americans who are most likely to go hungry every day.
The study found that the number of Hispanics going hungry was three percent higher than for non-Hispanic whites and eight percent lower than for non-Hispanic blacks, BBC reported.
"such as increasing hunger and obesity"
I just wonder how the two go together: hunger and obesity. Hmmm.
You know what sucks even worse?
The Che memorabilia is manufactured here.
Simple fix: Make them eat the illegal's.
Oh sheesh....am so sick of this carp!
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I decided I had to respond, for the halibut. Let's all just keep clam.
Somehow, we just never seem to see those starving obese people in Africa.....
The libs tell us that they are. They say that's why they are moving here. Must be why so much produce in the base commissary is from Mexico.
Nothing that a multi-vitamin won't fix.
Poor people get food stamps which would definitely cover the cost of rice, beans, bread, peanut butter, milk, and multi-vitamins.
These days, lots of cities have gardens that you can work at and get free food if you cannot grow the food at your own residence.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
I think that is the problem in this country. It's easy to get healthy food, but you can't make people eat it.
I see lots of chubby little Mexican kids in California...
If the public is expected to believe that "one in five Hispanics in America lack sufficient food" then we must also believe that Mexican's cross the border into the United States by the hundreds of thousands every year, just so that they can starve here. In as much as the latter is certainly not the case, neither is the former.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err11/err11b.pdf
If you read the whole thing, it is actually fairly well designed, and tells you exactly what they define as "insecure" and as "hungry." When you drill down, the numbers are actually astonishingly small. 3.9% of families were "hungry" at some time during the year, perhaps only on one day.
At another point, it estimates that the number "hungry" (requires yes answers to several questions such as "skipped a meal for no money" "didn't eat balanced meal because no money", etc.) on any given day was perhaps 0.5%. Pretty believable numbers, and far, far lower that the usual "millions of children go to bed hungry every night."
NO WAY I don't believe this study
All Hispanics I see never miss a meal you could tell LOL!
I'm reading a book right now called "Freakanomics." In this book, the writer recounts how the homeless advocates of the 1980s just made up numbers and fed them to eager journalists, most of whom used without a single thought.
I read this article and even without evidence, I know what I've seen in communities with lots of Hispanic people. I've been to third world countries and I know what hunger looks like.
This article is bullsh*t. If it shows up in my paper or on my television, I'll rain crap on them until they run a correction. Bullsh*t. Bullsh*t. Bullsh*t. Bullsh*t.
That felt cathartic.
Whoops! Did I overreact or what! I zipped right over the weasel words:
"... one in five (Hispanic) people lack nutritious food..."
So they do have food. They might be spending their money on chips, beer, and Twinkies, but not on "nutritious food." I love the way that a lack of nutritious food is altered in the lede into people going hungry. You're not hungry if your dinner is diet Pepsi and Doritos. Your bowel movements might be intense, certainly.
If you do like it, move back south of the border and become one in two with an income earning problem....
I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.
I as a physician have not seen any starving children in my 21 years of practic except those of drug addicted or very mentally ill mothers.
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