Your statements seem calculated to dismiss to the reality of food insecurity in the United States without including any relevant factual information. Here you - or any earnest reader - can find the USDA's 2012 report on domestic food security, which is (in contrast) an excellent source of such information.
An estimated 14.5 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2012, meaning they lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The change from 14.9 percent in 2011 is not considered statistically significant. The prevalence of very low food security was unchanged at 5.7 percent.
Wolfe even anticipated that the material would make folds, wrinkles and creases invisible, just as described in TFS.
I started re-reading The Book of the New Sun last week and there are numerous references to this aspect of cloth of fuligin, the color darker than black.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood