Not hungry, just not secure

Okay, nobody's measuring "hunger". We're measuring "food insecurity."

Maybe they have a point. Maybe we don't know if people who can't afford to put food on the table aren't really hungry - maybe they're eating out of trash cans or something. Maybe people who don't know where their next meal is coming from miraculously manage to find that meal anyway.

But maybe instead of "low food security" and "very low food security" - which, frankly, sanitize the problem into something we can ignore - we should label the categories "can't afford to buy food all the time" and "can't afford to buy food at all." Seems to me that solves the problem of "but are they really hungry" without denying the scariness of the problem. Not to mention hinting at how to solve it.

I mean - not everything is a security problem, guys.