The Latest Food Crisis: Food InsecurityKaren De Coster, Contributor A little more than 17 percent of Franklin County residents met the governments definition of food insecure in 2010, which means they didnt always know whether they could put a decent meal on the table. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the national food-insecurity rate remained relatively unchanged in 2010 at 16.1percent or nearly 49 million people. The notion of food insecurity is a creation of government. Tis the same old story obese Americans are hungry, and they need more food. The story is that children are hungry, rural people are hungry, the seniors are hungry (I thought they ate dog food?), and thus, more public assistance programs are needed. Here is a photo the organization uses to display hungry Americans. These people, like a majority of the poster children for hunger, are fat and undernourished on processed foods and fast foods that are scarcely fit for human consumption. The solution, then, is to give the governments Corporate State-Big Food-Big Agra partners that have played a major role in expanding the obesity crisis such as ConAgra Foods, Kelloggs, Kraft Foods, Nestles, PepsiCo, and General Mills more market power through government redistribution programs to intensify the problem. Surely this crisis of nutritional deprivation hunger can be eradicated through more Lucky Charms, Kraft Mac Cheese, Doritos and Cheetos, frozen waffles, Chef Boyardee ravioli, and 10 for $10 Banquet frozen dinners. Both ConAgra Foods and General Mills are experiencing the pains of commodity inflation and lowering forecasts for 2012 profits. Meanwhile, all of the Big Food powers are poised to grow their market share for snacks, one of the fastest-growing segments for Big Food-Big Agra. An executive for PepsiCo stated: Were maniacally focused about gaining share in all of these segments in 2012. Part of that strategy involves the giganta corporations lobbying for and sponsoring government redistribution programs and quasi-government charity organizations that use government redistribution schemes and taxpayer loot to help grow their market share and product popularity among the segment of people who are most easily fooled and hooked those who are poor, uneducated, and dependent. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 