euphemism of the week

[Alison Murie]

>According to a story on ABC World News Tonight last night, hunger no
>longer exists in America.  We are told by the relevant government
>agencies (I don't remember which ones) that the 35 million Americans
>who used to be hungry are now coping with "very low food security".
>This is evidently an upgrade from their previous condition, "food
>insecurity with hunger".
>
>LH
>
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The real meaning, of course, being very-low-quality-food  security:
surplus commodities of over-produced, over-refined, foodstuffs of  high
caloric but otherwise low nutritional value.
(Harper's Index, Dec. issue, has this, "Ratio of the number of people
worldwide who are overweight to the number who are undernourished: 5:3")
AM

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