Reply #7: Food insecurity is not synonymous with hunger [View All]

[Gormy Cuss]

Food insecurity covers a broad range of conditions where the ability to secure an adequate supply of nutritious food is lacking. If because of lack of resources a family eats only large bowls of white rice or Ramen noodles three times a day, they may not be hungry but they have a severe food security issue. If a family can afford to eat only one meal a day, they're hungry.

That's the way the term is used by poverty agencies, sociologists, etc. The reason is that if hunger is the only standard for judging food access many people are ignored who have inadequate access to nutritious food.

On edit: using 'food security' to disguise hunger rates is obscene.