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“Food insecurity” is a statistic designed to mislead. From the USDA “For most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety rather than insufficient quantity.”

So, they have food, just not the variety and quality. I would love to eat steak, lobster, crab and shrimp but I can't afford that quality all of the time. I guess that makes me food insecure.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have criticized USDA for how these statistics are contorted from a measure of household “security” into a misleading estimate that millions of individuals go hungry.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11578&page=5

Private nonprofit organizations exploit USDA statistics to create a crisis atmosphere. USDA food security reports, by creating the illusion of a national hunger epidemic, have helped propel a vast increase in federal food aid in recent years. But that has been a dietary disaster across the land.

A Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics study concluded that “food insecure” adults are far more likely to be obese than “food secure” adults — indicating that a shortage of food is not the real health problem.

http://www.andjrnl.org/article/S2212-2672(12)00745-9/abstract