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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw AT chilitech.net>]

I suspect that a lot of people define "food" as something you heat in the
microwave. If you actually have to prepare it...rice, potatoes, etc. (i.e.
the things 'low food security' people have lived on for centuries)...it's
not 'food'. Heaven forbid you should have to pull it out of the ground and
eat it.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Let them garden!


>
>
> Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry
>
> By
>
<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/elizabeth+williamson/>Eliz
abeth
> Williamson
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, November 16, 2006; Page A01
>
> The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry
> again. But they may experience "very low food security."
>
> Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures
> Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word
> "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the
> table. But not this year.
>
> Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a
> scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being
> measured in the food security survey." Nord, a USDA sociologist,
> said, "We don't have a measure of that condition."
>
> The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- 
> could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven
> million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year,
> the USDA has determined "very low food security" to be a more
> scientifically palatable description for that group.
>
> The rest of the story is at:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501621.html
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