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    Default Real food - is that too much to ask?

    Great TEDx video regarding cleaning up the food industry.

    http://www.wimp.com/realfood/

    Watch that -then dig up youtubes for Food, Inc.

    Now - after watching those, think about our Government shutting down Amish farms and other raw, real food establishments. When I close my mind I envision a nation where the Government raises our kids after birth, controls/demands our diets, and removes any form of resistance 'for our own good/safety'.
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    Well, come on, D - teachers know better than parents what is best for their kids, so it only makes sense the government knows what is best for us in all those other things too ...

    Debbie Squires, education official at the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA), has sparked some controversy after telling the House Education Committee in a hearing for a new school choice package, that teachers know better than parents what's best for their children, MLive.com reports.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1264025.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jess View Post
    Well, come on, D - teachers know better than parents what is best for their kids, so it only makes sense the government knows what is best for us in all those other things too ...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1264025.html
    There are a lot of stupid parents out there who put their child's best interests very far back on their priority list , if they are there at all, but I'd vote to terminate any of my teachers who actually voiced such an opinion. The idea is to encourage parents to engage and aid in their child's education, not say " we know what's best, shut up!"

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    Society does not have the job, but it takes it, saving parents from aforementioned 'stupid' parents. If a kid has stupid parents, it's their lot in life - the responsibility of the kid to over-come.
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmp View Post
    Society does not have the job, but it takes it, saving parents from aforementioned 'stupid' parents. If a kid has stupid parents, it's their lot in life - the responsibility of the kid to over-come.
    It's a catch 22 . Schools SHOULDN'T be parenting, but parents have dumped it on them. When a student who has shitty parenting acts up, he is disrupting not just his education but that of those around him. In an ideal world we'd just send his ass home and tell his parents to keep him there until he can behave. But that of course isn't how it works. So schools take the "easier" route and they become parents as well as educators.

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    If a kid acts-up due to shitty parenting, the right answer is to ban the kid from school. Not to try to become surrogate parents.

    But this thread is about the foods we eat -which generally suck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dmp View Post
    Great TEDx video regarding cleaning up the food industry.

    http://www.wimp.com/realfood/

    Watch that -then dig up youtubes for Food, Inc.

    Now - after watching those, think about our Government shutting down Amish farms and other raw, real food establishments. When I close my mind I envision a nation where the Government raises our kids after birth, controls/demands our diets, and removes any form of resistance 'for our own good/safety'.
    Obamajugend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmp View Post
    Great TEDx video regarding cleaning up the food industry.

    http://www.wimp.com/realfood/

    Watch that -then dig up youtubes for Food, Inc.

    Now - after watching those, think about our Government shutting down Amish farms and other raw, real food establishments. When I close my mind I envision a nation where the Government raises our kids after birth, controls/demands our diets, and removes any form of resistance 'for our own good/safety'.
    Great Presentation. Well prepared. Yeah, Genetic Engineering of our food supply without testing, and Government compliance, running cover, for unethical practices is very disturbing. Just more confirmation on where even the EPA's interests really lie, in supporting this crime, while busting the chops of anything going Organic.

    The Unhealthy Truth:
    How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It

    In a first-person story as shocking as it is inspirational, The Unhealthy Truth published in May 2009 by Random House, reveals the alarming relationship between the manipulation of our food and both the increase in dangerous allergies in our children as well as the increase in cancers in our families—and offers a road map to healthy living.

    Robyn O’Brien is an unlikely candidate for a crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to what went on inside government agencies or about the additives and chemicals in our food. Until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs, and everything changed. 

    From Your Link.

    http://www.robynobrien.com/books.html

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