Let’s Start a Food Fight!!
Frankly, it’s been a dream of mind to start a massive food fight and see it through since I was a little kid! So good for them!! — “Parents Object to Food Fight Punishment: Boring Food”
Can you imagine!?
Sure it’s wasteful, but how much more food goes to waste everyday in the restaurant industry, and on all the other levels of the food system before it gets to your plate and then into the garbage? Most of the groceries Americans buy ends up in the garbage and never gets eaten anyway… How sad. The percentage is actually kinda scary too — but lemme dig around and get back to you on the actually numbers if you’re interested — Also, most of the food served to children in cafeterias in schools in this country are agricultural surpluses anyway — stuff that doesn’t make it onto the market.
secondly — what’s wrong with free food!? if that mom was so bothered by the food served at the school, why didn’t she provide for her own daughter the next day, or for the next three if she was sooooo bothered and disgusted? Isn’t that her job as a mom? Is it the school’s job to feed every child in the country? Is it the government’s and thus the taxpayers job? Obama thinks every kid should be entitled a healthy free lunch. Is that even the right way to go or is that the nation’s leaders trying to solve a poor systemic offshoot problem of poverty? What bugs me in the article is the mother’s sense of entitlement. To me, the problem is this growing cultural attitude, that I have a right to this — clean water, clean air, and food, without taking responsibility for things that are common goods. Food is a sticky subject when it comes to common goods because nobody takes the responsibility for taking care of the system, but everybody extracts from it, and uses it, and expects it to provide an endless supply at a ‘reasonable’ price. But that doesn’t make sense — because if we were reasonable, then it would include all the real costs of food…and the prices would be SO high that no one can afford any food. (would that then control the population size? who would be the select few who make it through, strong and satiated? Anyway, this is for the next post — Earth Days — because the longer we ignore this terrible equation as a human race, the worse these problems of that stem from the system are getting, and after watching this movie last night, I am ready to tackle the interwoven issue of Climate change. Stay tuned.)
I grew up in Canadia, where no child is ever ‘entitled’ to a free lunch. They must provide their own, and for many years I remember eating a slice of turkey cold cut sandwiched between two slices of white bread. MmmHmmm, talk about bare sustenance. And have you ever walked into one of these institutional cafeterias in a public school? The yellow dim and dingy lighting with the stark painted brick or cement walls lined with vending machines isn’t exactly the most appetizing of places. In marketing class we talk about “appetizing colours” and colour clues when people design restaurants and there are actual colours that can “depress the appetite” - yellow, green, blue — maybe that’s why they all started throwing food, they were disgusted too. All I wanted to do when I was a kid was eat fun food and to make food fun when I was a kid, and that’s really all I want to do now too.
**Smack! you just got hit in the face with a slice of All American Kraft Cheese, besides, can you really call it cheese without tagging the word ‘product’ to the end of it? I’m surprised those kids didn’t throw their “only cheese sandwiches” the next day as a form of retaliation. Hahaha, Mmm covered in cheese…
Perhaps this food fantasy of mine stems from a hot and steamy dream of having my very own passionate post harvest sex — from the 1995 movie “A Walk in the Clouds” — that’s right fellow kids of the 80’s… y’all know that sexy scene I’m talking about when all the women jump into that giant barrel of grapes and stomp around dancing barefoot to ‘press’ the wine while the men play music and sing along and the family celebrates the harvest in napa valley CaLi, post WWII. Then “Paul” and “Victoria” get it on, all romantic and dirty and covered in grape juice and skins. Aghh, a romantic drama at its best… (and this was during Keanu’s ‘Speed’ days! LOL)
Who said food isn’t related to love? Maybe those kids were trying to tell us that we need to love them better, or else they will continue to throw more processed “food” around in their cafe.
(ps – anyone else bothered by the fact that they organized through their cell phones?! Haaa.)
happy conscious eating today ;)
xoxo J xoxo