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Anything that is made up of artificial ingredients to appear to be another food are generally bad for you. The best example of this may be margarine. And artificial sweeteners. And artificial flavors or flavor-enhancers (i.e. MSG – monosodium glutamate). And fake meats. And fake cheese. Etc.
Don’t eat this bad stuff, and find a local farmer/rancher where you can buy REAL FOOD!
“For the economy as a whole, profits are a minor item, about 10 percent of what the American economy produces, for example. But it is a major item as an incentive to efficiency in producing the other 90 percent.” (Sowell, 2007, pp. 173).
Sowell, T. (2007). Basic Economics. New York: Perseus Books Group.
Okay, so perhaps the picture is a little dramatic, but hey, it caught your attention, didn’t it?
Today I was forwarded a wonderful article on a teacher speaking out against the drab food that is a part of our public education’s lunch system. The variables are complex (subsidized lunches, funding from both state and national governments, purchasing/volume requirements, marketing, mark-ups, profits, and federal requirements), but the problem is not.
The problem is that our kids (in general) are not engaging in a healthy diet. Now, that is NOT just education’s fault, as a matter of fact our “social structure” is very much a culprit. However, I myself have recently been in an elementary classroom, and our youth are eating a lot of foods that are not good for them (processed foods to wrap it into one category).
One teacher in Colorado, is speaking up and speaking out. An naturally, she is getting resistance from others because of her actions. However, it takes people – from our community – to make a difference and to stand up for nutrition, produce, and supporting local agriculture whenever and wherever we can.
Read the whole story HERE, and if you have more stories and links about other people speaking up and DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, please let us know, we would love to feature them online and in-print.
- Tisha Casida
