Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Acabar com a fome - parte II

Voltando ao tema, aqui fica mais uma maneira engenhosa de acabar com a fome. Com os cumprimentos da administração norte-americana.

"Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.

Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said "hungry" is "not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey.

The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year, the USDA has determined 'very low food security' to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group.

A vida pode ser bela. Só precisamos de arranjar os eufemismos certos.

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