I didn’t learn these tricks because I was experiencing obesity…
Try volunteering at your local food bank some time, they certainly need the help right now
Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if you are dealing with hunger
Personally I can never get past this line. Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.
cymbal_king@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.
The USDA differentiates food insecurity from hunger, and both exist in the United States. See www.ers.usda.gov/…/definitions-of-food-security and en.wikipedia.org/…/Food_insecurity_and_hunger_in_…
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, that was my point. The word “hunger” is being conflated with food insecurity. We all know what “hunger” means, and it is not the same thing as malnutrition or food insecurity. I don’t care if it’s been redefined by NGOs to make a (valid) point more punchy, it’s not the same thing. It’s manipulative Orwellian use of language. That’s all I have to say here.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
tell me you didn’t click either link without telling me you didn’t click either link 🤷
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tell me that you haven’t read 1984. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength”, and today “obesity is hunger”, apparently.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 day ago
nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”.
Source?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let them eat cake?
Believe it or not, there are other countries that the US on the internet.
Also (and I suspect an even more difficult concept to grasp) even within the US there are people with barely enough money to eat anything, let alone junk food.
Look at the data - 47 million people in the US face food insecurity. Do you think these people are trapsing down to the food bank only when they fancy a change from McDonald’s?
It’s good to be sceptical when you hear stuff that surprises you, but so a bit of research before dismissing it.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t “surprise” me, it’s a common talking point. I’ve been to America, including the poorer bits. I know the statistics about obesity and social class - do you?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Of course, and it’s a common trend around the developed world.
What’s important to realise, though is that there are huge swathes of people who are poorer than that. People who need to choose between eating and heating. People who go without just so their kids can eat.
The obese poor people are not the ones who are starving (obviously). They’re not the ones in abject poverty.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
I was one of them when I was a kid. There were many times the only food I got was the free lunch provided at school, and I helped my mother scavenge dumpsters behind grocery stores for food. I’m fat now because it’s the most shelf-stable and accessible calorie reserve available, and with the looming cuts, I’m glad it’s there for me. This guy doesn’t know jack about shit.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
How can there be “huge swathes” of Americans who are “poorer than” the Americans who are so poor that they can only afford junk food and thus explain America’s obesity statistics. This whole talking point makes no sense.