Whatever happened to telling it like it is? You know, if someone is short, why dont we call them short? Why must we call them “height challenged”? Did they try to be tall but just couldn’t make the cut? Of course not. I wish people would stop acting “conveniently offended” and accept things as they are. It’s actually getting so bad that some people want to quit acknowledging that hunger exists in our country.
The federal government has decided to drop the word “hunger” from its vocabulary, according to a new report released by the USDA. The reason? USDA sociologist Mark Nord, the author of the report, claims that the term “hungry” is “not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey. We don’t have a measure of that condition.”
This has to be one the most stupid things I have ever heard. Hunger is not “scientifically accurate”? What else would you call it? Seriously? I had no idea that hunger was a “specific phenomenon”, I always thought it was a direct result of having no food to eat.
The USDA will now use the term “very low food security” to describe people who used to be considered “food insecure with hunger.” Statistically speaking, hunger will no longer exist in America.
So someone who does not have food to eat is no longer hungry? They simply have very low food security? I am sure that information will help keep their stomachs from rumbling the next time they miss a meal. Hmm. I wonder if this report they speak of is edible? If it is… With the way the government prints thousands of copies of crap like this, maybe they can feed the world?
Sadly though, tonight, as you sit down to eat your dinner there will indeed still be hungry people out there, wishing they had food like you, and statistically speaking, there will still be morons at the USDA trying to convince us that those very people are no longer hungry because hunger no longer exists in America.
[Hat Tip: Dvorak Uncensored]
Sounds to me like someone at the USDA is trying to justify their job. It’s hilarious though.
Comment by Teresa on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:07
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