...instead of hearing about the moral crime of food insecurity in the richest country in the world, we hear more about how the President did not cut the requirement that forces single mothers in poverty to go to work (as if there is this abundance of jobs they can access right now).

As Marcy Wheeler notes, the closest we get to hearing about food in this convention is when the Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talks about the bounties of turning corn into fuel. Remember, his USDA put out the report showing the 18 million Americans who have trouble finding food...

...The Clintonian response to this would be that a rising tide lifts all boats. Grow the economy and you reduce poverty. That’s how it worked in the 1990s. And that’s true to an extent. But the moral crime of rampant hunger, along with rampant inequality (which skyrocketed in the 1990s, by the way), shouldn’t be predicated on what kind of economy we have. There’s no time where it’s “appropriate” for mass hunger. And it won’t be solved by a couple hundred thousand more jobs here and there. It’s a by-product of a broken, rigged system. It’s not enough to give 18 million hungry Americans “opportunity.”

http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/09/06/report-18-million-americans-cannot-find-enough-food/