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Real-World Gripe: "Food Insecurity"
The Muppets now have a character to discuss what we used to call hunger.
Is anyone else bothered by the newsspeak term 'food insecurity'? It doesn't seem to improve our understanding of the problem or its scope, it doesn't offer solutions - it just pretties it up so it can be ignored and/or spoken of by the wise & powerful.
We have children in this country (USA) that don't get the nutrition they need. Yet we can sprout fast-food restaurants by the gazillion, have farms where we mass-produce chickens and pigs and cows. Ultimately, we are headed for the nutritional version of our economy: 1% of the population has FOOD, the rest of us have mass-produced/processed gunk.
"Food insecurity" is the 21st Century version of 'Let them eat cake' - a term thrown around by people who think hunger means 'I skipped lunch because I had a meeting'.
/soapbox
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*holds up your soapbox* LOUDER!
+4M TK-855 - The Western world already receives the majority of the worlds food, which half the time is left to rot because our eyes are way too big for our stomachs. In Australia alone there is food waste close to 3 million tonnes a year.