In true Orwellian manner, the Bush Team is now calling hunger by the new phrase of "very low food security." The US no longer has 12% of Americans or 35 million people who suffer from hunger. Hunger is something that only happens in undeveloped nations and simply can't happen in the good ole USA.  No, now America has 35 million people that suffer from "very low food security."

The Agriculture Department issues an annual report that measures Americans' access to food and has always described those Americans who can not afford to put food on the table as suffering from hunger. This year the hunger shame is now to be called "very low food security."

Not surprising. For Bush, everything is a matter of security. But, it really does not get Bush out of the doghouse because whether this national disregard of human rights is called hunger or food security, the "number of hungriest Americans has risen over the past five years." Hmmm.  Coincides with Bush's term in office. Wonder if his policies and actions -- both commissions and omissions -- have anything to do with increasing hunger in America?

In one state alone, hunger has "more than doubled in low income communities" because of "poverty and the high cost of living" and is not related to a food shortage.  Poor families simply do not earn enough money from the low wages provided by corporate America to pay for living expenses of home, heating and food costs. The remedy for many suffering from prolonged hunger is to buy food that is not nutritional, which then causes obesity and diabetes.

Another distressing part of this article is how the redefinition of hunger to food security is similar to Bush's redefinition of torture so that He can proclaim to the world that the US does not torture terror suspects. Remember how the Bush Team first defined torture as only those actions that caused pain or death? Now, hunger is not hunger unless there is pain or discomfort:

Less vexing has been the effort to fix the way hunger is described. Three years ago, the USDA asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies "to ensure that the measurement methods USDA uses to assess households' access -- or lack of access -- to adequate food and the language used to describe those conditions are conceptually and operationally sound."
Among several recommendations, the panel suggested that the USDA scrap the word hunger, which "should refer 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."

To measure hunger, the USDA determined, the government would have to ask individual people whether "lack of eating led to these more severe conditions," as opposed to asking who can afford to keep food in the house, Nord said.

For Bush, who lives in a bubble world, the best way to resolve an issue is simply to sweep in under the carpet or claim it simply does not exist by redefining terms. When Bush was running for president in 1999, he claimed that the USDA hunger report was a fabrication because it consistently concluded that one of the worst states for hunger was Texas, where 5% of  the people in Texas suffered from hunger.  Convinced that the USDA hunger report, which is issued in October of each year, was released to harm his candidacy, Bush remedied that little problem this year too by "delaying its release until after the midterm elections."

So, there you have it. Another problem has been eliminated by Bush. Hunger no longer exists in America.

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