I was writing up outlines for the next few weeks and ”BAM!”, I got distracted by an interesting story on facebook. Shhhhhh………..don’t tell my kids I let facebook distract me. So, back and forth, I went, with a friend, Becky from Eat Drink Better on how congress approved pizza as a vegetable so that schools can get funding. As it stands, a 1/2 cup of tomato sauce on one slice of [...]
Food industry is out to make money. We all know that. But it’s up to us to decide what we are going to put in our bodies. The industry will do whatever it can to cut costs and increase profits. And the sad thing is, our government cannot protect us. The agencies that exist to police the food industry is ill equipped to handle all food safety issues to protect the public from harm’s way, for one reason or another.
So, it’s up to us, the consumers, to be educated on what’s healthy and what’s not. It’s up to us to demand what kinds of laws we want our government to pass and how we want them to protect us.
I try to focus on how we can eat better, for our health and the environment and I hope these stories will enlighten you about foods we eat.
Thanks for reading!
xo
Karen







