Please stop using the words 'food insecure'

[NurseJackie]

75. If charities, churches, pantries, kitchens ...

I’d be more along the lines that a “food insecure” child doesn’t tug at the heartstrings quite like a “hungry” child does,

If charities, churches, pantries, kitchens and other civic-groups want to use "heartstring" words in order to motivate individuals to donate or volunteer... sure! Why not?

Nobody is trying to BAN or PROHIBIT the use of the word "hunger" or "hungry". Nobody is suggesting that "I'm having food insecurity" is the new way to say "I'm hungry".

And hunger has never referred to just food. You can hunger for a lot of things.

Hungry for love. Hungry for money. Hungry for fame. Hungry for solitude. Hungry for knowledge.

That way the conservative trashing of social safety nets doesn’t seem so bad.

But it's very short-sighted to try and limit the vocabulary and accurate phrasing that helps others to have meaningful conversations and to address a plethora of problems and issues OTHER than the symptom of "hunger". Do you just want to talk about the end-result? Or will it be okay for people to be able to honestly discuss the societal and economic reasons that the people are hungry.

This OP is literally over-thinking things. The OP is in search of a problem that doesn't exist. --- All I'm trying to say is that it's always better to find solutions to actual problems than to invent "problems" (and feel as though something meaningful is being accomplished when scolding others for using perfectly fine terms like "food insecurity".)

What good purpose does it serve to dumb-down the conversation (and the search for solutions) when it's so much more complex that simply "hunger"?