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Default USDA eliminates "hunger" in the US!

"modom (palindrome guy)" <moc.etoyok@modom> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:40:59 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> > wrote:
>
>>"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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>>> 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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