Food Freedom??

This has got to be the most stupid thing I have ever seen. The city of Oak Park, MI is prosecuting this woman because she planted raised beds in her front yard full of vegetables. Someone in her neighborhood turned her in to the city. How sad is that? You don't think every aspect of our society and our country has gone seriously off track? This is government in action folks.

Food Freedom-op-ed time

Yep, I'm going to voice my opinion. Thank you Chicago Tribune for making me spit my coffee all over my desk this morning. Chicago school bans some lunches from home. This story has sparked some nasty controversy across the web and I wanted to point out a few things about it. First off, the story clearly states that this isn't something new, the school has been doing this for 6 years now. having lived relatively close to this area in my 20's, I know exactly what type of public school this is and the area that surrounds it. Have a look for yourself with the google map, just type in 2620 S Lawndale Ave, Chicago, Illinois and it brings you right to it. To see the school itself, the schoolyard, the businesses around it and the houses, simply zoom in.

Secondly and a continuance of my first point, if this school and/or the Chicago public school system in general has been practicing this for 6 years now, why all of the sudden is there media attention and where was the parents outrage at being told what to feed their own children, way back then?

This is stupidity, on so many levels. Are we so numb to our surroundings, brainwashed by the television, lulled into complacency by the main stream media lies that we can't see ourselves being enslaved, completely controlled? How did we come to a place where we would allow local, state or federal governmental entities to tell us how to raise and feed our own children? Are we lemmings or citizens of a free nation?

Now, if you are using the example of what the public school here in southern Illinois is feeding the children as being a healthy meal and a guideline for eating healthy, you need to be institutionalized. It has not been very long since my youngest was in grade school and the crap they were passing off as food was not fit to be fed to my dog. I seriously doubt it has suddenly improved. Now, granted, I use home grown whole foods to create healthy meals for my family but a person can learn to choose healthy foods even at Walmarts grocery section. A "haystack" made with crushed Doritos, some mystery garbage laced with ammonia they pass off as ground beef, fake cheese because you can't serve real cheese and wilty lettuce is NOT a healthy meal I would choose for my children. Nor is some frozen fish sticks a healthy choice.

Wake up people, take responsibility for yourselves and quit letting 545 idiots make decisions for the rest of the 306 million people in this country.