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"food insecurity" is an extremely broad brush, and has nothing to do with abundance. Many homes where members of the home are obese qualify as "food insecure"
by q1w2 3y ago
"food insecurity" is an extremely broad brush, and has nothing to do with abundance. Many homes where members of the home are obese qualify as "food insecure" because they don't buy fruits and/or vegetables.
The USDA doesn't ask why, they just ask if there are fruits/vegetables in the house, and if the answer is no, they mark the home as "food insecure".
Another questions is whether you worry that you might not have enough food at some point in the future YEAR.
Frankly, the metric becomes obviously meaningless once you read all eight questions.
- stjohnswarts 3y agoI grew up relatively poor, however my parents still made sure we didn't eat pure junk food out of frozen food boxes. We ate potatoes, lentils, beans, rice, pasta, lot of cheap veggies like cabbage. Parents grew some stuff too since we had a small garden, and I try to keep up that tradition in my back yard even though I'm much much better off income wise now. Families don't have to eat junk food, there's still plenty bulk stuff around. Not super cheap but at least as cheap as the processed garbage if you buy the raw ingredients.