Why Don’t We Just Feed Our Kids Dirt?

I know that the task of fixing our broken country seems overwhelming. It’s going to take making correct, ethical choices every day – not giving in to personal greed or pettiness or laziness at any point. We’re going to have to demand the best of humanity from our POS elected officials. That means feeding the kids decent food AND not mortgaging their futures on stoopid government-funded bulls***.

Today I add my Voice of Outrage to the School Lunches issue. Obama wanted a $10 billion increase – I think the lej gave him 8. How much was the price tag on the recent Health Care Debacle Bill? A trillion?

Do I really need to point out that the food we put in our bodies directly impacts our health? Okay, let’s go there.

1. Traditional medicine ignores thousands of years of medicinal wisdom (herbs, vitamin and mineral components in plants and foods) because IT DOESN’T PAY. They can no longer be entrusted with our health care. What does pay are unnecessary medical procedures and tests, chopping body parts, pushing pills on the American people to make their Big Pharmaceutical friends richer. (I actually know doctors who play poker with their pharma-friends on a regular basis.) It doesn’t benefit doctors to insist that patients eat healthy if they want to be well. Step One: IGNORE the AMA, its members, and its lap dogs.

2. How does one eat healthy today? NOT by buying the genetically-modified, toxic crap sold at the grocery store or in the restaurants. To explain and document everything that has happened in our food supply would require a separate thesis. And one day I will tackle that. Just trust me for now on this. On one side, how else are we going to feed 9.1 billion mouths on this planet by 2050 without doing freakish things to food in the name of science. On the other hand, we’re all getting cancer, diabetes, mentally ill, overweight stressing our hearts, lungs, bones, etc. Step Two: IGNORE the cheap, nonfood being pushed as “normal” food by food companies.

3. Government regulation has been bought and sold. The FDA is made up of employees from the corrupt food companies and pharmaceuticals. Have you seen the little USDA Food Pyramid lately? My point being that it keeps changing to reflect whoever has the most money or power. Step Three: IGNORE governmental agencies’ crazy recommendations for what comprises a “healthy” daily diet. Remember the “ketchup should be considered a vegetable” initiative?

I propose we flip those priorities (School Lunches versus Public Health Care) and put the bulk of our public funds into feeding the children properly and we’ll see less of a need for health care on the other end of the equation! The need to dope the kids with ADHD, anxiety and anti-depression meds will decrease, IQ points will jump, teachers will actually be able to teach the kids to read and reason, standardized test scores will zoom. No telling what good things can happen i.e. money saved if we get the sugar and caffeine out of the kids for a few hours a day.

It all starts with prioritizing the FOOD and then hopefully, we’ll see all these other huge, costly societal issues diminish.

If you don’t think our kids are worth it, do you think America and her future are? Did you know that a quarter of 17-to-24-year-olds are currently too overweight to serve in the military?

So, what do we do with all this allocated money? I read one excellent solution that involved the children of a local elementary school WALKING for 10 minutes to a garden area overseen by the local health department. They get exercise, sunshine, math and science lessons incorporated into their gardening, and then the harvest in their lunches.

If a school system just can’t innovate like the one described, it should purchase from local farmers, supporting them with our money instead of the Big corrupt Food Companies AND supporting a greener lifestyle that doesn’t involve transporting the non-food all over the country via truck and rail. The idea here is that each school district needs to make the deals happen with local food producers with the Correct Standards in place.

As for meat…we may not be able to afford organic, BUT certainly Real Meat is preferable to Mystery Meat. Imagine how the children could perform with real protein in their bellies. Of course, we’ll have to teach the cafeteria workers how to actually cook and not just re-heat crap.

We have to have the guts to make these changes in our thinking. We’ve got to do it for the kids.