Well, That Didn't Work

Sunday's meals -

Breakfast: Waffles with bananas and yogurt
Lunch: Leftover pork with mashed potatoes - almost gone, the meat leftovers are almost gone.
Dinner: Carrot Ginger soup (from Trader Joe's) and Cheddar Cheese perogies (from a freezer box). This was not a good combination. Fine as individual items. Did not make a meal. Oh well.

Today Nate's cousin shared an interesting article about food and eating in America on Facebook. I thought it was interesting though perhaps perpendicularly related. It was worth sharing again here anyway: 9 Things You've Never Heard About America's Food In actuality, I had heard some of these things and I could've guessed others. Seriously, who is going around saying they think poor people don't want to eat healthy? That's just absurd. But I'm a food person, so I'm looking for things like this. And hunger, malnutrition, and access to healthy food amongst those in the lower income brackets is one of the issues that has always come up at my church - whether as part of collecting food for Chester Eastside Ministries and CityTeam, when working with the Chester Coop, or as part of Stop Hunger Now.

Well, clearly it is a complicated issue. But since the government wants to be all up in other areas of our lives right now (see what's going on in VA and PA), I think maybe we should start with taking a look at how the government subsidies food and how they go about setting minimum wage requirements... I'll leave my politics there for now. As to my religion: Jesus said, "feed the poor" and "just as you have done to the least of these my brothers and sisters, you have done unto me". I think he was pretty clear on the issue.

Now, how does this apply to my temporary vegetarianism? Well, I don't think it does directly. But I took this on as one way to think about food concerns, so I figure it makes sense for other types of food concerns to come up. Otherwise, this would be an entirely selfish endeavor.

Thoughts?

PS: I'm all caught up now! Hooray!