It is important to know about the food we eat. This section is a work in progress. It will be dedicated to tell you all about food — the good, the bad and the ugly. Come back and visit us often. We will be sharing information on products, recipes for healthy living and how food and herbs can help heal your body. Let me begin by supporting our children. Won't you join in the campaign?
"We believe that federally funded nutrition programs should provide all children with the healthy food they deserve. This includes low fat and safe dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains. Schools should be soda- and junk-food-free zones and serve food that complements and furthers parents' efforts to feed their children healthfully."
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Learn more from The Center for Food Safety. Visit
www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Be sure to visit the Food Inc. movie Web site. It is jam packed with information that will help you support the cause. It is a matter of life or death. Get your head out of the sand and get busy. If we unite and come together as one, this too can change.
The following was taken directly from the Food Inc movie Web site. I urge each and every one of you to become very familiar with the site as well as the movie and support their efforts in any way you possibly can. This information could very well save your life:
How Much Do We Really Know about the Food We Buy at Our Local Supermarkets and Serve to Our Families?
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli?the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with experts such as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward-thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation, and where we are going from here.