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Originally posted by lurkette
So because many people are obese, there must be no starving people.
And because you haven't seen starving people, they must not exist.
Please.
You're dealing with two separate issues, and it's the worst kind of rhetorical dishonesty to conflate them. I don't even have time to pick apart the flaws in your thinking here. They should be pretty obvious to anybody with half a brain.
"Based on the Census Bureau survey, USDA estimates that in 2000, 10.5 million U.S. households were food insecure, meaning that they did not have access to enough food to meet their basic needs. About 33 million people lived in these households, including 20 million adults and 13 million children."
More stats at http://www.fhfh.org/hunger.html
Pretend it doesn't exist all you want, if it comforts you and allows you to cling to your neocon fantasies.
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Look boss da plane da plane!
Ah welcome to Neocon Fantasy Island!
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Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2001. The rest were food insecure at least some time during the year, meaning they did not always have access to enough food for active, healthy lives for all household members because they lacked sufficient money or other resources for food. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.1 percent in 1999 to 10.7 percent in 2001, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.0 percent to 3.3 percent during the same period. This report, based on data from the December 2001 food security survey, provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households, as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs.
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That’s from the USDA study. What it says is that 10.7% had food 'insecurities' at some point during the year, not the whole year but some point. That doesn’t mean they were hungry, but they were worried about the food budget!
As for hunger it says it was 3.3%. So at some point during the year there were 3.3% who were hungry for some reason.
Not discussed of this 3.3% it doesn't say WHY they were hungry, just that they were. Maybe momma is spending all her money on drugs, maybe dad left them, maybe its because its a SURVEY and filled out by the people. Yes on volunteer information STILL only 3.3% said they were hungry at ANY given time during the year.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/fanrr29/
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Q5. Were children ever hungry because of a lack of money and other household resources for food?
In U.S. households, children—especially younger children—are usually protected from hunger unless hunger among adults reaches quite severe levels. Even so, about 211,000 households (0.6 percent of households with children) registered hunger among children at some time during the year.
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications...&Asecurity.pdf
It goes on, and its kind of funny reading the real report and listening to the liberal lies. .6% of households REPORTED that at some point during the year there was child hunger. What’s really amusing is how a household said they were 'hungry'.
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Adults ate less than they felt they should.
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Based on how fat the rest of America is, that’s easy to understand why they felt that way.
Oh my! We better raise taxes for more food programs.