• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    “Starvation” is a very specific thing which is not referred to by “food insecurity”.

    • DrMorose@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      You are just being pedantic. Food insecurity is the term used for people who may have to skip meals because they lack money to but it, it is not provided by programs in schools/communities, or they have food but it is inadequate to meet their dietary needs to grow/develope or even live.

      So yes you could not be “starving”, as you put it, because you can go to the corner store or whatever and buy a candy bar, but that doesn’t mean that same candy bar is going to sustain you. You body will starve because it lacks vital nutrients.

      Do better.