Slimming, and Sharing

BUT THE GOOD news is that the most recent generation of american children isn't quite as obese as the previous. This is especially good news, since over the past few decades it has become increasingly difficult to fit americans into phone booths, alone or in groups. Maybe the price of food is just too damned low in america. A great number of us seem to have easy access to unnecessarily large amounts of it. On the other hand, when you consider that at least one out of every five children in the united states does not get enough to eat, at least some of the time, and that this is related to poverty, food suddenly seem all that inexpensive. It has been readily observable that in america low income people, often people using some form of public assistance, are in fa(c)t obese. And, there are times, when supporting oneself seems so achievable in america that it is difficult to imagine anyone who really wants to, unable to. But it seems ironic that in a country in which one of every three adults is morbidly obese, aka very fat, that one out of five children go hungry, at times. Is that a wild way to highlight the decline of the american middle class, and the gap between the rich and the poor, or what? Among these millions of part time hungry american children, surely...none of them is overweight. NO matter how much food is grown in america, america might as well grow more - just because she can. Let america be a river of food unto all the world! The problem with america agriculture is that, throughout most of the twentieth century it has produced such an astounding supply of food that the growers were unable to get a fair price for it, ironically. Even while millions of americans have always been hard pressed to pay for food, american farmers have grown too much food to get fair crop prices, and, for middle class americans, on up, food has always seemed cheap. What is that, the free market working smoothly, naturally, and freely? Remember, this is the situation in american BEFORE the government steps in. the government stepped in beginning in the NEW DEAL. with crop price support ans farm subsidies. More failed socialism, or effective help for america's farmers? Ask the farmers. One of the causes cited for the newly discovered reduction in young american fatness is greater parental awareness of the dangers, spearheaded by public service ad campaigns addressing the problem. So maybe, sometimes, when the government warns us about something, there is some truth to it, and it does some good. Amazing