Hunger Rumblings Blog

Relevant and timely thoughts about hunger-related topics in the world

ELCA World Hunger staff invite you to journey with us as we consider hunger in the world, our work, the work of others, and anything else that strikes us as interesting, timely, or helpful. You'll find us online at http://blogs.elca.org/hungerrumblings. We welcome your comments!

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What does our food really cost us?

"While it may not be a stretch to consider our food choices as one of the causes of the obesity epidemic, it is much harder for us to connect our food to the unsustainable practice that produces our food: conventional farming. Chemicals and other environmental abuses are now a part of conventional food production, as well as the abundant calories and little nutrients that are a part of the food that we receive. Many of us are so far removed from our food, that we never think about a cow’s living conditions before it ended up in the many packages distributed all over the country, nor the tree that produced the orange many thousands of miles away from the counter you picked the fruit from..."

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