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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSome major food related charities claim that 1 in 7 Americans go to bed hungry every night. This claim is an easily provable falsehood – and why I no longer give donations to these organizations. Telling lies is not a long term successful strategy for fundraising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They rely “on a survey that measured \u201cFood insecurity\u201d (not the same as hunger-see below), and leapt from 1 in 7 experienced \u201cfood insecurity\u201d at least once in a year to the fictional claim that \u201c1 in 7 people already go to bed hungry\u201d. The assertion that 1 in 7 people go to bed hungry is false.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet that claim became the focus of numerous media reports – and is often repeated each fall during their annual publicity drive\/fund raising programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Food insecurity” is a now popular term instead of “malnutrition” or “starvation” – because the latter mostly no longer exist in developed countries. Thus, “Food insecurity” – but it does not mean people are going to bed hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n