I’m reading Italy is Country of the Year at BioFach 2007, and in fact, “The Italian government passed a law back in 2000 that stipulates the use of organic ingredients in the canteens of public schools and hospitals.”
Wow. Of course in America we’d have to automatically poo poo the notion that government should make regulations about what children might consume. It’s part of the brainwashing. Corporations make higher profits when they are unregulated. Of course they do; who can argue it? Nobody’s gonna deny the obvious: you can make a whole lotta profit on synthetic, sugar-laced, food-like items dispensed in machines at local grade schools. Shoot, there’s even enough money left over after the profits are distributed to the top guns that they can afford to give a cut to school administrations who buy into this nonsense.
We the people got left out of the government equation long ago. Except for one thing. Titties.
Yes, seeing women’s breasts damage children, according to the dimwitted in Congress. So they need to be regulated. I guess that’s why American’s don’t breast feed as much as other nations. And don’t forget, those pervert teachers who subject kids to art need to be eliminated as well.
Why can’t we see “saving the children” as an organic part of a whole that includes nutrition, living conditions, unlimited access to the world’s best literature?
At least Italy gave it a shot. Of course, “Initially…only a few local governments were prepared to grant subsidiaries, and infringements of the law were not prosecuted.”
Still, things are moving along. It’s good to see Italy getting some recognition for having a government that doesn’t seek to placate agribusiness shysters by allowing them to drag their poison chemical crap into the schoolroom.
And in America things are moving along smoothly as well. According to a Reuter’s report, “President George W. Bush will soon seek about $100 billion in additional emergency funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” to top up the $379 billion for the war in Iraq already allocated. Too bad it’s so darn expensive to remove religious fundamentalists when they get guns. Otherwise the world might have some money available to find ways to produce and distribute healthier food.
As Jamie says of big corporate farms, “they can offer you a mass-produced leg or breast of chicken, or they’ll try to help you feed your kids by processing, reformulating, reshaping, and repackaging meat so it’s unrecognizable. With a cocktail of additives and preservatives, colorings, and flavor enhancers in food, it’s not hard to realize why Britain is one of the unhealthiest countries in Europe and why my kids generation is the first to be expected to die before their parents. How completely shocking is that?”
Save the children indeed.