U.S.: ‘Hunger’ Will Now Be Called ‘Low Food Security’
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WASHINGTON — The American government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience “very low food security.”
Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans’ access to food, and it has consistently used the word “hunger” to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
The lead author of the report, Mark Nord, said “hungry” is “not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey.” Mr. Nord said, “We don’t have a measure of that condition.”