Tag: reports
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food insecurity: more americans going hungry
from allgov: The Great Recession has left millions of Americans hungry not only for jobs but even food itself. A new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows “food insecurity” rose dramatically in 2008—to the highest levels since the federal government first began keeping track of this problem in the mid-1990s. Nearly 50 million…
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dog food tastes just like pâté
from cbs: If the recession gets worse, we may be eating dog food for dinner. Don’t laugh. It’s apparently tastier than you’d expect. In the last few years, organic dog food made with human-grade free range meat and fresh vegetables has spiked in popularity among health-conscious shoppers. Some companies even claim, for instance, that “humans…