Fears of hunger are becoming more obvious.

Posted on November 17, 2009
Filed Under Economy |

My greatest fear this winter is a worldwide famine. Here are a few articles that I have read that are pointing this out more and more.

http://www.philly.com

“America is hungry and getting hungrier, with 49 million people - 17 million of them children - last year unable to consistently get enough food to eat, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

These figures represent 14.6 percent of all households, a 3.5-percentage-point jump over 2007, and they are the largest recorded since the agency began measuring hunger in 1995.

Of those 49 million, 12 million adults and 5.2 million children reported experiencing the country’s most severe hunger, possibly going days without eating. Among the children, nearly half a million in the developmentally critical years under age 6 were going hungry. That’s three times the number in 2006.

The study documented both “low food security,” which describes people unable to consistently get enough to eat, and “very low food security,” in which people reported being hungry various times over the year but were unable to eat because there wasn’t enough money for food.

The South reported the highest number of households in both categories, at 15.9 percent, followed by the West at 14.5 percent, the Midwest at 14 percent, and the Northeast at 12.8 percent.”

And another:

http://www.marketskeptics.com/

The title speaks for itself.   *****Worst Harvest Season Ever Seen*****

One more:

http://www.mybudget360.com/lining-up-at-midnight-at-wal-mart-to-buy-food-is-part-of-the-new-recovery-banks-offering-mattress-interest-rates-the-invisible-recovery-outside-of-wall-street/

Lining up at Midnight at Wal-Mart to buy Food is part of the new Recovery.

There seems to be a growing divide in the current U.S. economy.  On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like a modern day Scrooge Mcduck.  In their circles, it appears as if the recession is over.  On the other hand, you have average Americans seeing access to credit cards shut down, equity in their homes vanishing, and their stock portfolios looking a little too much like 1999.  Then you have 35.8 million Americans, roughly 11 percent of our population, on food stamps.  To this group the recession is still very much alive.

At a recent Alliance for Family Entertainment of the Association of National Advertisers, Wal-Mart gave a sobering look at the current economy:

“(NY Times) There are families not eating at the end of the month,” said Stephen Quinn, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Wal-Mart Stores, and “literally lining up at midnight” at Wal-Mart stores waiting to buy food when paychecks or government checks land in their accounts.”

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