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Hunger ends, at least in name

Every year the US writes a report that measures the food security of American citizens. Every year it discovers that about 12% of the population can't afford to buy enough food at some point during the year. That seems like an enormous number for the richest country in the world. George Bush obviously thought it was a might touch too. In 1999, he said the report must be fabricated.

From this year on people who report that they have gone "hungry" in the past year will no longer be recorded as having gone hungry. Instead, they will have suffered from "very low food security". The authors of the report have decided that the term "hungry" was not accurate because "hungry" technically refers to "a potential consequence of food insecurity that, because of prolonged, involuntary lack of food, results in discomfort, illness, weakness, or pain that goes beyond the usual uneasy sensation".