The Agriculture Department announced this morning that 48 million Americans live in "food insecure" households. Soon you'll hear we're suffering an epidemic of hunger. While the federal government is already feeding more than 100 million Americans, we'll be told that it just isn't enough.

But it isn't true. "Food insecurity" is a statistic designed to mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being "uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food."  USDA noted: "For most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety rather than insufficient quantity."