So how do you fix a broken system? Taxing isn't going to do it. But if 'America' ever wants a medicare system that works for its people, it had better start implementing actual programs at the grass roots level to make sure its population stays healthy and knows what it means to be 'healthy' so that your system doesn't fail the way our system has: yes Michael Moore you truly didn't do your resarch...(canada)
This issue is so complex, that it seems almost impossible for a single solution to fix this problem. Living in East Texas, a very poor area of Texas, I knew lots of people that beans and potatoes where their primary foods in their day to day diet. Having meat was a treat. Many had access to gardens and could grow some of their food. I find is heartbreaking that in a country of plenty, there are so many people that do not have enough food. Sadly, the least expensive food tends to be food of the lowest nutritional value.
How can we tell people who have so little how to eat. Cooking your own food certain aides in stretching the dollars that we all have. It is often difficult to translate the skills that are needed in food preparation. What responsibility do we have as a society to teach people how to cook and better equip themselves in this battle of hunger? Simply taxing food that is not healthy is not a viable solution as a by-product of this will hurt the people who can afford better quality food the least. We need a revolution in the education of food and cooking preparation.
"Rulman, Inventor of potato cooked in braising liquids!" - Holy hell lady, it's rather a typical process. Despite this oddity in commentary, the dish looks spectacular and warrants off season eating. I liken it ( "it" being the lack of season corned beef, spud and cabbage boils etal) to a whole Turkey - "Mothertrucker, this is some splendid bird" - only to be curb-sided to the Holiday season. I guess this is the cruel fate of holiday eats?
Argh. I hate the newspeak term of 'food insecurity.'
Beyond that, it distracts from the problem: obese people may qualify as 'hungry,' but are all hungry people obese? No.
It's not like obese people are causing hunger by consuming resources that would otherwise sustain others. It's a symptom of other, basic changes to our values and lifestyles; addressing obesity would not, in itself, remedy the problem of hunger.
The first mission is to teach people how to cook. Put Home Ec back into every junior high NOW. If people learned how to cook, some of them might do it on a regular basis. The demand for better food may create an opportunity for real grocery stores to return to the neighborhoods that have none. And armed with some skills and creativity, Americans will re-learn that fast food is NOT cheaper, actually.
So how do you fix a broken system? Taxing isn't going to do it. But if 'America' ever wants a medicare system that works for its people, it had better start implementing actual programs at the grass roots level to make sure its population stays healthy and knows what it means to be 'healthy' so that your system doesn't fail the way our system has: yes Michael Moore you truly didn't do your resarch...(canada)
This issue is so complex, that it seems almost impossible for a single solution to fix this problem. Living in East Texas, a very poor area of Texas, I knew lots of people that beans and potatoes where their primary foods in their day to day diet. Having meat was a treat. Many had access to gardens and could grow some of their food. I find is heartbreaking that in a country of plenty, there are so many people that do not have enough food. Sadly, the least expensive food tends to be food of the lowest nutritional value.
How can we tell people who have so little how to eat. Cooking your own food certain aides in stretching the dollars that we all have. It is often difficult to translate the skills that are needed in food preparation. What responsibility do we have as a society to teach people how to cook and better equip themselves in this battle of hunger? Simply taxing food that is not healthy is not a viable solution as a by-product of this will hurt the people who can afford better quality food the least. We need a revolution in the education of food and cooking preparation.
"Rulman, Inventor of potato cooked in braising liquids!" - Holy hell lady, it's rather a typical process. Despite this oddity in commentary, the dish looks spectacular and warrants off season eating. I liken it ( "it" being the lack of season corned beef, spud and cabbage boils etal) to a whole Turkey - "Mothertrucker, this is some splendid bird" - only to be curb-sided to the Holiday season. I guess this is the cruel fate of holiday eats?
Note to self, It's 'Ruhlman" ....razafrackin' mesafurkin' fuddle...
I'm not even in the right f'n section?? Murphy, YOU BASTARD!
Argh. I hate the newspeak term of 'food insecurity.'
Beyond that, it distracts from the problem: obese people may qualify as 'hungry,' but are all hungry people obese? No.
It's not like obese people are causing hunger by consuming resources that would otherwise sustain others. It's a symptom of other, basic changes to our values and lifestyles; addressing obesity would not, in itself, remedy the problem of hunger.
The first mission is to teach people how to cook. Put Home Ec back into every junior high NOW. If people learned how to cook, some of them might do it on a regular basis. The demand for better food may create an opportunity for real grocery stores to return to the neighborhoods that have none. And armed with some skills and creativity, Americans will re-learn that fast food is NOT cheaper, actually.