Now I've heard everything - "Food Insecurity"

I have gone through brief but agonizing periods of pussy insecurity in my life and I imagine food insecurity is even more annoying.....

I worked my regular job then ran off to Harvard to hear Marina Warner then ran back to work because there were parent-teacher conferences.

Driving down Mass Ave back to the high school, I followed a car with a bumper sticker that read, "Our leaders are turning us against each other."

A teacher at my school thinks that geography is no longer part of the school curriculum because publishers -- run by multinationals which include big oil and big agriculture -- don't want people to know geography.

I think the sort of linguistic shenanigans you describe here are part and parcel of the things I cited above: divide and conquer but keep people ignorant.

I think if the division and subjugation is happening as you say, its not the result of any dread plan. But I don't doubt that the bumbling attempts to whitewash simple facts like human hunger in the US might unwittingly have effects like you describe.