Biden’s hunger hubbub ignores the federal obesity fiasco

[Peter1469]

Starvation Lunch Lady Michelle Obama tried to blame this problem on "underserved communities" in need of more federal funding for healthy foods. At the same time totally ignoring the real issue involving the choices people on welfare are making. The lack of super markets compared to fast food and convenience stores in some areas happens for a reason.

Right. Crime.

[donttread]

We have an obesity crisis in the US and Joe* is reading the telepromter telling him to make war on hunger. By war Joe* means throw money at the problem. But the evidence doesn't show hungry people, but rather overfed people.

Biden’s hunger hubbub ignores the federal obesity fiasco

President Joe Biden hosts a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health next Thursday. He promises to “take bold steps to end hunger,” and his summit will likely unleash a torrent of demands for new federal handouts. But neither Biden nor the attendees will admit the vast collateral damage from a 50-year-plus surge of federal food aid.


In 1969, President Richard Nixon held a summit on hunger and received glowing press coverage for proclaiming, “The moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time.” That year, 3 million Americans received food stamps, a burgeoning federal program that cost $228 million. Last year, 41 million people received food stamps, and the program cost $114 billion. Thanks to an array of other subsidies, the federal government is now feeding more than 100 million people.


Yet hunger supposedly remains a grave problem. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Rules Committee, declared Sept. 15: “Almost 40 million Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.”


Yet the federal government doesn’t even attempt to collect data on how many Americans actually go hungry. In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences urged the US Department of Agriculture to create a hunger gauge, but the agency’s done nothing on that score. Instead, USDA conducts annual surveys measuring a vaporous notion of “food security” — which can simply mean uncertainty about being able to afford groceries in the future or not being able to afford the organic food one prefers.


That survey is designed to spur perpetual false alarms and demagoguery. The latest survey, released this month, declared that 10% of American households are “food insecure.” Politicians and much of the media take such statistics as proxies for mass hunger despite USDA’s explicit warnings on the limits of the data.


Thanks to federal programs, millions of low-income Americans are undernourished but overfed.

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A 2017 study published in BMC Public Health found food-stamp recipients twice as likely to be obese as eligible non-recipients. The recipients consume twice as many of their daily calories from sugar-sweetened beverages as do higher-income groups (12% vs. 6%), per a 2015 study in Preventive Medicine.


Food stamps have been one of the most tragic bait-and-switches in modern political history. More than 40 years ago, the Congressional Budget Office warned that “it still remains unclear if increased food purchases . . . means improved nutritional status.”

Government 101
Find a problem
Establish networks to deal with the problem
Fund the networks willy nilly and evaluate them on how much they spend or how many they serve.
Appoint friends to head up such programs as payola
Hold money rightly belonging to the states hostage until they address the problem in ways that give the feds control

And like magic these agencies expand their scope and power by stretching the truth about the problem long after it is largely addressed.
Racism was made one directional and covert, transphobes are anyone who believes that birth gender means anything, children's gender thoughts are "affirmed" instead of explored. All prostitutes are trafficked rather than just harming themselves for drug money and couch servers who never did a night on the street are "homeless" . To get money, attention, grants, published or heard in human services you have to use the lingo and apply it to what they do. You have to see blacks, women or people of color, many trans folks and center your work around it even where is no real; evidence of disparity.
It's a whole blueprint and it works.
Think about 20 unarmed blacks killed by police each year vs 30 whites being turned into politician and organization support for lines like "young black men are being hunted in the streets by police.
The desire to further your cause , keep your activism going after it is no longer needed and earn money and attention has out dueled truth and facts. With the help of media and SM cashing in too.