This is America. People who are 'starving' do so by choice. There are plenty of resources from churches, to soup kitchens, to financial assistance, that they choose not to utilize.

Comment would be superfluous.

I am twelve percent.
I thought my food was secure.
Limbaugh stole my pie.

The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans — 35 million people — could not put food on the table at least part of last year.

While twelve percent are in the “very low security” category, less than a third of that group actually had someone go without eating for a single day in 2005.

So apparently "part of the year" means one meal as only 31% said they didn't eat for a day.

I also found these statistics an interesting contrast. 96% in the "low security" said the food did not last and they did not have money to get more (just to be clear is this no money or no money and no food stamps). 44% said they lost weight because they did not have enough money for food. So apparently 52% ran out of money for food, but did not lose weight because of this and 65% ran out of money but didn't go hungry for the day. This would appear to be very transitory running out of money, with little real impact on food intake.

My wife fasts once a week voluntarily. So would she get counted in the 31% who missed a day of food?

It is also unclear to me from the write up (thank old media) if this is measured like poverty in the US (aka before government assistance).