Posted on 09/20/2022 4:46:41 AM PDT by JonPreston
Agree, today, now, immediately, stop putting deficit US taxpayer obligations into Ukraine without a system of audits.
And the second big cover up gig they made their millions off speaking tours and selling books Obama and the Clintons turn lights out
Obesity is a problem however, that doesn’t mean people, especially kids don’t go hungry.
Promoting hunger scam is how federal bean counters keep their jobs. A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2012 found that 35 percent of food-insecure adults were obese — a far higher rate than for food-secure adults.
The Agriculture Department reported Sept. 3 that 14.3 percent of American households — 49 million people — suffered from “food insecurity” last year. This number is little changed from last year despite the fact that the federal government is now feeding more than 100 million Americans.
The USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food” at times during the year. Most of those USDA-labeled “food insecure” did not run out of food; instead, they reported “reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet” with “little or no indication of reduced food intake.”
If someone states that they feared running out of food for a single day (but didn’t run out), that is an indicator of being “food insecure” for the entire year — regardless of whether they ever missed a single meal. If someone felt they needed organic kale, but could only afford conventional kale, that is another “food insecure” indicator. If an obese person felt they needed 5,000 calories a day but could only afford 4,800 calories, they could be labeled “food insecure.”
One of the survey’s preliminary screening question asks: “In the last 12 months, did you ever run short of money and try to make your food or your food money go further?” Why should we be concerned that shoppers want their food dollars to go further? This was formerly taught as a virtue in high school home-economics classes, and now it is a pretext for a federal alarm.
Even though USDA’s food-security statistics do not measure hunger, that is how the media portrays the report.
Though some commentators are touting the USDA survey as proof that low-income people are severely deprived, the Journal of the American Medical Association noted in 2012: “Among poor populations, 7 times as many children are obese as are underweight.” A study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2012 found that 35 percent of food-insecure adults were obese — a far higher rate than for food-secure adults. Paradoxically, many activists invoke that high rate of obesity to “prove” that recipients need more free food.
BOVARD: The ‘food insecurity’ hoax
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/9/bovard-the-hunger-hoax/
okie dokie then- noone’s going hungry- my mistake-
My point was obesity is a bigger problem in the US vs hunger. Has anyone including children ever faced hunger, of course they have, but saying 50 million people in the US face 'food insecurity' is nonsense. If people can't budget for groceries properly over a month or use the money for other things, no increased amount of spending is going to change that.
Ukraine Aid Could Be on the Chopping Block in a GOP-Controlled House
It better be!!
We have high inflation and a recession coming because of the $3 trillion spending congress has done just in the past 18 months.
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