- she noticed that the hunger goes with insecurity and that the poorest nations of the world were also the most angry
- looked into school feeding programs - gets kids to school and nourishes them
- poverty and hunger leads to child malnurition versus education and nourished children leads to end of poverty
- feedbag - each bag sold would schoolfeed a kid for year - 55 million kids fed for a year
- what are you doing for Anericas kids - 49 million kids are hungry, one third are obese - a billion people around the world are obese
- agriculture - consolidated farming - corn soy and wheat. But America doesn't export a good system and systems around the world are deteriorating. Farmers in America are fat, farmers elsewhere are starving
- America's farming system has led to obesity, not to mention sodas
- in the developing world is going to America's system and becoming obese
- agriculture and obesity are one system, not separate
- the 30 Project - long-term ideas for food system change, connects disparate organisations
- ideas - organic food, easy access to vegetables, sustainable animal management, crazy tax processed foods
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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