April 10, 2012

Tuesday in class we talked more about food security and all the different things that came to mind when we thought about what food security means...like the ability to acquire food and to do so in socially acceptable ways, to be able to feed your whole family without having to sacrifice other things like your electric bill, and so on. We also started to talk about Laws and bills and how it affects nutrition and all the programs that we have available today that help people so that they are able to feed their children and themselves. We have programs like Head Start and WIC and the SNAP program available today because someone realized that people still needed help and so they decided to find a way to help these people. All of these programs started out as just a thought/idea that someone had and then they had the initiative to help make sure that that idea became a law. Without motivated people we would not have a lot of things today.