Do You Hide from the truth?

Is this the world you so much love and appreciate, and you go on living your everyday life while innocent people die. They did not choose the life they must live and neither did you but does that mean you should give 5 dollars to some organization once a month and say you your part is done?

The food museum online is taking it in their own hands to make people aware that we are having around 852 million people die from famine A YEAR!!!!!! now tell me can you enjoy that bugger and throw away those fries without considering what is happening around you . People open your eyes see the truth we need to help those in need join these organizations and help out there are many to choose from here is a list to get started :

ACDI-VOCA is a private, nonprofit international development organization providing high-quality technical expertise at the request of farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, and private and government agencies abroad.

Action Against Hunger directly delivers emergency aid and longer-term assistance to people suffering from the dire consequences of natural disaster or man-made crisis. Thier mission is to save lives by combating hunger, disease, and the crises threatening the lives of helpless men, women, and children.

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) is the worldwide humanitarian ARM of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, providing individual and community development and disaster relief.

African Development Foundation (ADF) is the only U.S. government agency working solely at the grassroots level in Africa to alleviate poverty and promote broad-based sustainable development. For more than 20 years, ADF has helped grassroots groups and individuals in Africa help themselves by providing the resources they need to advance their own efforts to promote economic and social development.

Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) strives to be a meaningful voice for Africa in U.S. public policy. AFJN stresses issues of human rights and social justice that tie directly into Catholic social teaching

The Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage promotes greater linkages between agriculture and nutrition in Africa, with careful consideration of factors that limit women's and men's contributions to family nutrition.

America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of nearly 200 food banks, Second Harvest distributes food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.

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Baptist World Aid (BWAid) works through Baptist communities around the world, mitigating suffering and providing long-range help for persons in need, regardless of religion, nationality, tribe or class. BWAid also helps poor people avoid situations of famine and malnourishment and improves their capacity for self-help and wage earning.

Bread for the World local chapter web sites:

• Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Farmington, Las Cruces, Gallup
• Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan
• Massachusetts
• New Orleans
• Oregon

Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic (B&Z) provides free food, clothing, medical care, legal and social services to over 8,000 low-income and homeless resdients of Washington, DC each month.

The rest can be found at Bread for the world

ONE

The website called ONE works on getting hunger crisis on the presidents agenda they have petitions a person can sign and in 2008 they tried getting the petition to George W. Bush to face the crisis in the 2008 G8 Summit:

As prices for staple foods essential to the world's poorest people soared to record highs in 2008, more than 140,000 ONE members signed our petition to President George W. Bush asking him to work to get the hunger crisis on the agenda at the 2008 G8 Summit, and to secure additional commitments for all types of food assistance and increased agricultural productivity in developing countries

Their efforts are to make people aware of our troubles and of the lives we need to help to live longer and happier. They face the facts that with prices and taxes going up on simple food as wheat and other crops it is impossible fro people to grow the extra food for the communities out there starving.

How much hope do people really have for the future or lack there of.....

Expiration Dates......

As I was doing the hours for my community service i came across something that completetly suprised me and made me realize how obliviously I have been living my life. When our "guardian" was explaining the rules and order of things at the work place he said and i quote " If the expiration date is a year old like say Feb. 8 2009, then you can still package it and send it to the hungry", now i was left speechless I didn't know weither i should ask him or forget about it. I decided to let it go for the moment and continue working but when i got home i was being reminded of his statement all night long and could not contain the urge to search it up any longer. As I tried to dig deeper and understand I was suprised with the details I found out.
I did not know that in the first case it is actually not a federal law to show expiration dates of any sort on any foood packaging that is not baby food. I found these basic rules ina website called Consumer Affairs which are:

Most people are surprised to find out that:
Stores are not legally required to remove food once the expiration date has passed. They are strictly "advisory" in nature.
Dating is not federally required, except for infant formula and baby food. States have varying laws. Most states require that milk and other perishables be sold before the expiration date.

And I also found that not all the dates they put on food are expiration dates but that some are codes that are put in order to explain other things like:

The major codes are:
Sell by Don't buy the product after this date. This is the "expiration date."
Best if used by Flavor or quality is best by this date but the product is still edible thereafter.
Use by This is the last day that the manufacturer vouches for the product's quality.

I truly believed that all those dates were put for the safety of the consumer not for the simple pleasure of a simpler understanding of quality.
Now reading further I seem to get the feeling that the government doesn't do it because they think it is not important or will protect anyone because apperantly no one can die from as said by Mark Harrison, professor of food science at the University of Georgia in the article The truth about food expiration dates:

In fact, both the FDA and the USDA have a pretty laissez-faire attitude when it comes to food shelf-life labeling. That's not because they are not concerned for people's health. Mark Harrison, professor of food science at the University of Georgia, points out that most of these dates are not an indicator of safety, rather of quality. "Some foods spoil if not refrigerated quickly enough—but they won't kill you," says Harrison

This search was not just made becasue I felt like knowing but because it got me to think are we trying to make a difference but choose to close our eyes at the dangers giving expired food may bring and if these epiration dates truly don't mean a think than are they a way fro people to throw groceries out and waist them so they can buy more food and give companies more money?......

3rd hand smoke

Everyone knows smoking is bad and getting second hand smoke can cause just the same amount of damage, but did you know that new discoveries have shown that 3rd hand smoke can be just as bad?!?!?! Berkeley scientists just finished running some lab test and have discovered that after one smokes the residues that follow one back indoors hold a dangerous affect one people especially the young ones

Toxic particles from cigarette smoke can linger on surfaces long after the cigarette has been put out, and small children are particularly susceptible because they are likely to breathe in close proximity, or even lick and suck them, they say.

Researcher Lara Gundel, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said: "Smoking outside is better than smoking indoors but nicotine residues will stick to a smoker's skin and clothing.

The most important step parents can take to protect their families from the dangers of cigarette smoke is to make their homes and cars smokefree

Ed Young of Cancer Research UK
"Those residues follow a smoker back inside and get spread everywhere. The biggest risk is to young children.

Michelle Obama

It seems to me that progress is happening and it is great to know that even our first lady's words get to be heard. Last night we got the pleasure of hearing how Michelle Obama views the choices that her husband has made, in the CNN's Laryy Kings show. Of course she would say he is doing a wonderful job to show her respects and dedication to him. Yet it was good to hear that she and her husband accept the criticism that is thrown their way and expect to learn from it. No one is immune to hatred and one must learn, and to me that it was a good president should do. Also she talked about the progress she hopes to make in her efforts to help with childhood obesity.

Contra Costa Food Bank

This is a great organization that focuses on change and progress. They are finding ways to end poverty and get food to those in great need of it. As they like to say

The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano works to end hunger and increase access to affordable, nutritious food for low-income individuals and families through a comprehensive group of programs that combat hunger and its causes.

They provide many different ways so you can lend a hand, by virtual internet if one is to busy or even hands on work if you have the time. I am pleased to get a chance to work with them and make a difference. One can help with food drives, organizing stocks of food, collecting neighbors to get involved, and many more other things.

Poverty......

Poverty: Refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, clothing and shelter(wikipedia).

I was pulled in when revealing the unstable life that most human beings under go on a daily base. Did you know that in one day around 25,000 humans die because of hunger and yet we go living our lives at peace? Well not all of us but most people know of poverty and yet only know the word not the meaning or affect behind it. Yet out of those thousands of people most of them are not older but young children who haven't even had a chance to live their life completely. Now I'm not saying our problem is lack of food in this world because trust me if there is one thing we have is food, but these people don't have what is most important in this world for EVERYTHING sadly and that is money. These people are denied the assurance of being healthy and knowing that they will live for one more day because they don't have the money. In my search for a solution that I could become a part of I discovered the website Poverty.com that has shown me the different diseases and consequences this world wide problem has had on our people.