Our first lady!

I knew I liked Michelle Obama! She has started a campaign to fight childhood obesity, and it actually involves dealing with the food situation they are faced with! You can read an excellent article here from Grist. By bringing together several agencies OTHER than the USDA, hopefully we will get some good dialogue going and keep Monsanto and its special interests out of the equation for once!

If we think that general obesity is bad, imagine being a kid who honestly can't make informed decisions about nutrition and exercise. Say all you want about obese adults and their poor choices, the honest truth is that kids are being robbed of the chance to lead healthy lives by being fed food poor in nutrition- and also being robbed of the chance to know and understand their food and where it is coming from. Childhood obesity is on the rise- and there is overwhelming evidence that the damage often cannot be undone.

So hopefully Michelle Obama can get some good work done on improving the nutrition of America's children. It's a step in the right direction towards fixing our relationship with food.