This is going to sound like a cliche, but pray for the homeless, and the poor, they're are many families hurting out there, and the rents have gone up, like crazy, just in the past couple of months. Some of my friends are being ask to move by the landlord, trying to jack up the rent, this is happening all over the place. I'm O.K., but the housing market is totally out of sync, no affordable housing.
Everyone, have a good Thanksgiving!
PEACE & BLESINGS!

Thank you Linda, and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving as well.

Here's something I found on another forum, but they didn't provide the orginal link:

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The US government has tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with "very low food security."
According to a report released this month by the US Department of Agriculture, roughly 35 million Americans had difficulty feeding themselves in 2005 and of those some 10.8 million went hungry.

Does the new terminology make it somehow easier to ignore or accept the problem? Rather than saying "poor and hungry" they are now "low food security".

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Originally posted by LisaP:
Thank you Linda, and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving as well.

Here's something I found on another forum, but they didn't provide the orginal link:

quote:

The US government has tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 11 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with "very low food security."
According to a report released this month by the US Department of Agriculture, roughly 35 million Americans had difficulty feeding themselves in 2005 and of those some 10.8 million went hungry.

Does the new terminology make it somehow easier to ignore or accept the problem? Rather than saying "poor and hungry" they are now "low food security".

Perhaps if we saw ourselves as a society, as a people, rather than as a collection of individuals who happen to share the same army for our security, we would do better.

Retired Monk

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Perhaps if we saw ourselves as a society, as a people, rather than as a collection of individuals who happen to share the same army for our security, we would do better.

Yes, even one step further, if we saw ourselves as brothers and sisters, aunties and uncles. It sure doesn't help to garner compassion by changing how we refer to these things. The choice in language such as "very low food security" is a sterile and non-feeling way of defining a problem, so in a way it lessens the impact of the problem in people's minds.

"Low food security" does sound better than "malnutrition".

Slow starvation by any other name is still slow starvation.

Retired Monk