Current Worldwide Food Crisis
April 21, 2008
I’ve been reading about this recent worldwide food crisis and it’s got me thinking some crazy thoughts, along with wishing I could feed some of those poor starving people.
We have so much extra stuff. I seem to buy fruits & vegetables just to let them rot in the refrigerator. Actually, sometimes I just leave them in bags on the kitchen floor. Again, my homemaking skills are in need of adjustment.
Also, I’m thinking that those of us with a few extra pounds may finally appreciate this fact when models and actresses begin fading away in the streets.
And who ever thought the morbidly obese would begin to look like forward thinking geniuses?
The few people left on the planet will one day sit around talking about the good old days when you could buy cupcakes and burgers on every street corner. Their mouths will salivate and eyes turn glassy, a wild pack of old sugar addicts with no fix.
They will appear as mutants. Everyone will have large layers of sagging skin that they can use as blankets to cover newborn infants.
And then this brings up a question I’ve always wondered about: Why in the hell do family members bring obese bed-ridden loved ones buckets of fried chicken, potato chips, pancakes and cookie cakes?
These are the thoughts and questions I ponder on this Monday afternoon.
April 21, 2008 at 10:47 pm
We have a great organization in the Mpls/St. Paul area called Feed My Starving Children. They get assemble huge amounts of vitamin enriched chicken, protien, soy and rice packets and distribute them in countries where starvation is rampant. The work they do is amazing and it’s actually hard to get on their volunteer list to go package the food. For my birthday a couple of years ago I made my family and neighbors join me at FMSC to volunteer packaging the food. They showed a tear-jerker video of Haitian kids eating dirt biscuits before bed to trick their bodies into thinking they are being fed. At the end of our shift they offered me a t-shirt as a birthday gift. I picked a shirt out and when I got into the car it hit me… there is something wickedly ironic about wearing an XL t-shirt that says Feed My Starving Children on it. Still can’t bring myself to do it.
April 21, 2008 at 11:56 pm
That’s It!!
You’re on to something!!
I’m not overweight . . .
Just forward thinking!!!
April 22, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I’ll take a few cookie cakes.
A bean-decorated cookie cake? LOL Or a cornbread base?
April 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm
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