These School Lunches from Around the World should Embarrass the U.S.

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Curator: Franchesca Ramsey

Healthy and balanced meals not only fuel our bodies, but also help fuel our brains. With that in mind, take a look at school cafeteria food from around the globe and ask yourself, "How does the United States measure up?" Spoiler alert: not very good.

Italy

Local fish on a bed of arugula, pasta with tomato sauce, caprese salad, baguette, and some grapes

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Top 10 Contaminants in Our Food Supply

It’s one of the public health’s top ten goals for the 20th century, creating a safer, more toxic-free food supply, but meanwhile virtually all food products are contaminated with various chemicals, bacteria, heavy metals, and residues from pesticides. According to many sources, Americans are exposed to what are called POPs or “Persistent Organic Pollutants” 70 times in one day. Chemicals like DDT and dioxin are moving through the food chain and into the human diet at an alarming rate. Contaminations from industrial waste and manufacturing plants are tainting our food supply, our ecosystem, and our health, here are the most daunting reasons why.

10. Genetically Modified Food

Although still a big question mark, genetically modified foods, introduced almost a decade ago are sprouting up on millions of acres around the world of farmland. In fact, most all of the soybean, corn, and canola crops in the US and abroad are produced using genetically modified seeds. Although a significant amount of studies have not yet been conducted, many are concerned of genetic contamination because these seeds have been engineered to withstand significant application of pesticides, usually made by the same companies that engineer the seeds. Even rice is becoming genetically modified. Certain risks according to experts include introducing allergens and toxins to food, accidental contamination, antibiotic resistance, and changing the nutrient content of crops.

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Do You See the Difference?

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How much difference is between what we see in advertisements for various types of food and what we get to the plate? See for your self.

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The most damaging substances to delicate intestinal flora include:

• Treated city water
• Alcoholic beverages
• Sugar consumption
• Medications
• Poor nutrition
• Antibiotics

After much contemplation.....for those who care...... (which should be all living breathing humans!!) a conclusion.

Some thoughts on a few topics: not just this one:
To lower the amount of Greenhouse Gases that are supposedly causing so much havoc...........
~Read: Global Warming? Hot Air! now it's no doubt that the Industrial Revo. brought a lot of Smog but read it.
and be happy healthy friendly people:

It should go in affect at once:
All loans should have an interest rate around 1 to 2%.
All credit cards should have an interest rate around 4 to 8%
All taxes should be lowered --there are WAY to many to even begin shooting out a number......
(no wonder so many problems over the years.....Tea Party?)
Nobody really needs a new car.
Industry (Industrial Revolution) has gotten more people into trouble than out of.....
But the advancements!, they say........ We all like the over paid lawyer when we think we need
one, but a life of simplicity does not need much at all.
Stop listening to the Doctors...those who get kick-backs from Pharmaceutical companies.
So then, stop taking drugs--they are man-made.....Stop eating Crap, which is for some
reason, man-made...... Food, at least that which was somehow magically here for us,
more like created for us, to enjoy and be sustained by will aid in the cure and prevent
all the stuff you think you need drugs for.
~See: God's Pharmacy
~Watch: A Thousand Suns
And know that, Heart Burn/Indigestion/Acid Reflux can be medicated by mixing Apple Cider Vinegar with apple juice or water....or whatever. Not Antacids. Whats happening is your stomach
does not have enough acid to digest the food present.....so by drinking an Acid (Apple Cider Vinegar) your stomach's Acid level goes "up" to the right level and no more heart burn!! By taking an Antacid your stomach temporarily looses Acid.....and very quickly is comforted by a surge of Gastric Acids.
Your paying for something that is taking away Acid which forces the stomach to counter act and
flood the stomach with Acid......... So just drink a little Apple Cider Vinegar.
~Read: Natural cures "They" don't want you to know about, Kevin Trudeau
and don't believe everything Wikipedia tells you.
Funny, the food is man-made that people eat and get sick from (over time that is.....like drinking and smoking.....they kill you slowly so it's Okay!!) and then there are thousands of solutions to what ails you!! all of which costs lots of money and is man-made.......

Still don't think this world and some of the people on it have a problem with money that is limiting the majority?

How about free (which is not free) public school? Good for the kids, ehh? No.
Thus, after lowering the taxes and the loan interest rates and ceasing to depend on someone else for everything.....maybe just maybe the basics will look a little more appealing than the rat race
for.........money and only a little bit at that. By the basics I mean: Family, Friends, Happiness, Giving, Loving, Creating, Dreaming, Laughing, Crying (tears of joy!), and and have you ever seen the stars? Or heard a song that stopped you in your tracks? A sunrise? Walked in the woods alone?
~Watch: A Thousand Suns
~Read: Four Centuries of American Education

We don't need 700 million lights on (at night) all over the cities......the stars look a lot better!!
Jobs are needed, Yes, but they are needed per your amount of debt. A Vocation is different than a job!
Classical music - MPR is paid for by the people and some companies but mainly the people......
my point.....great things cost money, that which is free has to many agendas attached to it in some way.
Kids don't need 6 thousand toys.....most of them like the box the dang toy came in anyways!
Consumerism is way out of control.
Everyone should know how to make/start a fire.
There has to be a solution to Africa's and Mexico's dependency on Charcoal for cooking/heating.
And China's dependency on Charcoal to heat their homes before "China" turns their heat on.......
Charcoal releases Mercury.........deadliest element next to Plutonium.

I am sure there is more......one could mention.
Ohh, and the US's military........too big. It costs way to much money.
Put some of that money toward something of more benefit to All.

Think about what you really NEED. Lets all join together and LIVE much simpler!!
Lets all LOVE each other too for our sake and your's and the earth's!

With lots of Love,
Jeremy