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Default USDA eliminates "hunger" in the US!

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:40:59 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> wrote:

>"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
>> According to an article in the Washington Post (reprinted in the Santa
>> Rosa Press Democrat), they will no longer report on the 11 million
>> people in the US who identified themselves as being "hungry" at times.
>> Instead, they will report them as "very low food security".
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Dan Abel

>
>
>Well, it is sort of embarrassing, considering the amount of money we're
>wasting in other places.
>
>I've also heard that coal-burning power plants don't release mercury into
>the atmosphere. And, even if they did, mercury's not a problem and it
>doesn't build up in the water, and the fish we eat. Even though it does.
>

The facts have a well known liberal bias. (Apologies to Steven
Colbert)
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modom

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