Food impaired


Redefining the hungry in America
I've seen the story in other places, but Capital Hill Blue has the best writeup so far.

First there were no long those who are deaf or blind or short or crippled. They are now "hearing or sight impaired" and "height disadvantaged," and "physically restricted." In my case, it is "hair deprived," so as not to hurt my feelings as used to happen when someone would point out, "Hey, do you know you're getting bald?"

Now we are being told by a government agency that may have one employee for every family farm left in America that 35 million of our fellow citizens who have difficulty finding daily sustenance are not really hungry but severely deficient in their ability to secure food. In fact, 11 million of these citizens have "very low food security." In other words these people are not only hungry, they may be on the verge of starvation -- a description for which apparently no euphemism yet has been discovered (but give them time).

This leads us to ask once again if this isn't enough reason to reassess not only the structure of this department but its worth. More importantly, it has led 64 members of the U.S. House to pose a series of penetrating questions to the good geniuses who prepared the annual report on Americans' access to their daily bread and then went off to enjoy their Thanksgiving turkeys.

When government doesn't like the results, they change the definition.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - November 28, 2006 at 06:17 AM  Tag


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