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I think education is the key and that should start at school and at home.

Families should learn to cook and how to use vegetables and whole foods. You can make a nutritious meal for 1, or 6 quickly with little seasonings, if you know what you’re doing. The point is not to change McDonald’s into some sort of vegetarian organisation, but to change the whole system itself. The government should step in decrease the power of the meat and dairy industry, and everything else might just be crazy enough to work!. The government says half our diet should be fruits and vegetables, but it doesn’t subsidize the farmers who grow them. Instead, half of all agriculture subsidies go to grain farmers, whose crops feed animals for meat, milk and eggs and become cheap ingredients in processed food. Subsidies encourage an abundant supply of corn, wheat, rice and soybeans. Much of the corn and soybeans is fed to livestock. Some also is turned into nutrition-poor ingredients in processed food for people. For example, pastries contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil that gives them a flaky texture, and they contain high-fructose corn syrup to sweeten their fruit filling. That translates to lots of calories, lots of artery-clogging fat and little or no fiber. In large part, the government
pays farmers who grow food for animals that become meat.
Such foods are becoming progressively cheaper, while the price of fruit and vegetables is rising.Why is it cheaper to buy cheesburgers than healthy food. THE “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. Like,when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli or it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home. I would really like to believe that if parents and schools were truly educated about the nature of food that we should be consuming, and how much damage our disgusting diets are doing to our bodies, none of them would voluntarily feed their children Happy Meals.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from of Guylène Boutet Word Peace Leader and Teacher

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