Hey all, my sis-in-law, Shawna, turned me on to an incredible website (and movement) called Healthy Child, Healthy World. As the name indicates, it is devoted to one thing: the health of our children. It’s an amazing site, and obviously well-supported. And the topics (like GMO labeling and enchanced chemical regulations) are near and dear to my heart.
Take a look at this well-produced trailer to get a sense of the founders’ commitment and the scope of their project. It’s very exciting!
I wonder if Healthy Child will be able to generate that all-important critical mass to affect real and sustained change. I certainly hope so, because although the focus might be our children (which is plenty important enough), the effects of the changes would be far-reaching.
I’d like to know what you think.
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As far as the topic of GMOs goes, have you heard of the Non-GMO Food Project (http://www.nongmoproject.org/)? It is a non-government effort to label products that contain no GMOs. Also Greenpeace has a list they call the True Food Shopping List, that can be found at http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/true-food-shopping-list
It seems like GMOs are in so many products in the US. One of the ways to avoid them is to stick to eating organic. Products that are certified organic, cannot be Genetically Engineered.
The Center for Food Safety also has an incredible blog devoted to non-GMO products. Problem: sometimes I think that so many great people working so hard on so many redundant projects is diluting our collective voice. What we need, I think, is an organizing body that represents the voices of all non-GMO movements; maybe a group that is comprised of a representative from each of the major movements. Something that can collect and focus the myriad voices into one clear, powerful voice. What do you think?
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A recent study showed that 49% of American children have been or are on Food Stamps. http://tinyurl.com/ygo6unw
The analysis was released Monday in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
All the aspects of such a study are overwhelming. The nutritionally aspect which is what the pediatrics article was mainly concerned with, and then there is the the thing I have always found very alarming. If 49% of the children are malnourished doesn’t that also indicate that the adults in household are also malnourished? I think so. Now, that number of children has just been multiplied by 2. That is very alarming to me. Twice as many people are malnourished but still 49%. Malnutrition is the precursor to many diseases.
Who are we? I am beside myself with angry, frustration and grief at the thought of this occurrence in our very mist. As the richest country in the world this is so unnecessary and totally preventable. If it is true that the test of the morality of a society is based on how we treat our children then this statistic indicates we are in a moral crisis.
What exactly determines the morality of a society?