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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

And conservatives want to make fertilized eggs full-fledged people
Posted by Jill | 6:51 AM
I wonder if they favor policies that starve fertilized eggs too:
Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

The department's annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children who suffered a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically eat was more than 50 percent above the 430,000 in 2006 and the largest figure since 716,000 in 1998.

Overall, the 36.2 million adults and children who struggled with hunger during the year was up slightly from 35.5 million in 2006. That was 12.2 percent of Americans who didn't have the money or assistance to get enough food to maintain active, healthy lives.

Almost a third of those, 11.9 million adults and children, went hungry at some point. That figure has grown by more than 40 percent since 2000. The government says these people suffered a substantial disruption in their food supply at some point and classifies them as having "very low food security." Until the government rewrote its definitions two years ago, this group was described as having "food insecurity with hunger."

The findings should increase pressure to meet President-elect Barack Obama's campaign pledge to expand food aid and end childhood hunger by 2015, said James Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group.

He predicted the 2008 numbers will show even more hunger because of the sharp economic downturn this year.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
What gets me is seeing comments all over the Net with stories like these that say something like "there is no food crises here, cause look at how many poor people are fat".
What they don't get is that the stories don't talk about just getting something to put in your mouth, but about affording healthy nutrious foods. What they don't see is that I can either spend 10 dollars on a package of skinless chicken breasts,a head of lettuce, and a cucumber and only have one meal and something left over for one persons lunch or I can get a box of fish sticks, chicken nuggets, a package of corn dogs, some prepared noodles,and some frozen french fries for the same amount and have three meals. Right there is the problem. Cheaper food is fattening.
When I first moved to my current home, Clinton was almost at the end of his term, and we ate healthy on only about 80 dollars a week and I was a size 10. Plus we would have money left when the next paycheck came.
Now, I still work the same very physically active job, but I have to spend about 150+ dollars for enough food for the week and it's mostly high calorie junk. And yes, I've gained a bunch of weight, and no,we don't buy candy and sweets.I'm also broke long before the next paycheck even though I make 4 dollars an hour more than I did back then.
11/19/08, 10:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Let's not forget that the GOP could have designs on invoking "economic reasons" (as in maintaining a labour-intensive Luddite socioeconomic model and paradigm) to legitimise banning abortion, contraception and family planning; have you considered just such a likelihood?
11/19/08, 2:26 PM  
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