http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/11/24/a-parado...
Rated • 1 review • cooking, america, obesity, hunger, paradox • reuters.com
From the page: "Call it a paradox of plenty. In the worldâ€s wealthiest country, home to more obese people than anywhere else on earth, almost 50 million Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008. Thatâ€s one in six of the population. Millions went hungry, at least some of the time. Things are bound to get worse.
This the bleak picture drawn from an annual survey on â€oehousehold food security” compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and released in mid-November. It showed the highest level of food insecurity since the government started the survey, in 1995, and provided a graphic illustration of the effect of sharply rising unemployment.
This yearâ€s picture will be even bleaker - the unemployment rate more than doubled from the beginning of 2008 to now, at 10.2 percent the highest in a quarter century. It is still climbing, and for many the distance between losing a job and lack of food security is very short.
In keeping with the American predilection for euphemisms, the word â€oehunger” does not appear in the report which classes food security into several categories, from â€oemarginal” and â€oelow” to â€oevery low.”"
This the bleak picture drawn from an annual survey on â€oehousehold food security” compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and released in mid-November. It showed the highest level of food insecurity since the government started the survey, in 1995, and provided a graphic illustration of the effect of sharply rising unemployment.
This yearâ€s picture will be even bleaker - the unemployment rate more than doubled from the beginning of 2008 to now, at 10.2 percent the highest in a quarter century. It is still climbing, and for many the distance between losing a job and lack of food security is very short.
In keeping with the American predilection for euphemisms, the word â€oehunger” does not appear in the report which classes food security into several categories, from â€oemarginal” and â€oelow” to â€oevery low.”"
