Feed the Muppets!

So Sesame Street is introducing a "food-insecure" Muppet.  Where even to begin?  Well, obviously, with the very descriptor.  "Food-insecure?"  What kind of adjective is that?  What's wrong with the English language these days that we have to come up with nonsensical hyphenated words to express ourselves?  I mean, parse that "word" (and I use the term loosely).  Would anyone have had the slightest idea what it was supposed to mean fifty years ago?

Secondly, does Sesame Street really want to go there?  This is a neighborhood where no one pays for anything. Muppets just waltz into Hooper's Store and order food, and Chris or Alan puts it on the counter in front of them.  No money ever changes hands.  How the heck does someone manage to be "food-insecure" in this place?  Are they just too stupid to walk into Hooper's Store and ask for free food like everyone else does?

Finally, Sesame Workshop's endless self-congratulatory press releases on their new Muppets (the first female Muppet main character!  the first HIV-positive Muppet!  the first "food-insecure" Muppet!) are cutting to ribbons their defense against the Bert-and-Ernie-should-get-married crowd.  Their lame response has been "They're Muppets, and Muppets don't have a sexual orientation."  Well, Muppets don't need to eat, either.  If they can get all proud and pleased about the introduction of Abby Cadabby (first female Muppet main character! (totally dissing Prairie Dawn, by the way)), then Muppets can apparently have gender.  And if Elmo's World can treat us to a scene in which a red furry Muppet in a hospital bed gives birth to baby Elmo (obviously under the effects of the universe's best pain medication, judging from her cheerful laughter just before the doctor announces it's a boy), then Muppets can have biological functions I don't even want to think about.