Round Table Discussion after Food, Inc. movie…
It’s been several weeks since I blogged about seeing the movie Food, Inc. and there are a few more points that I wanted to share about that experience. After any movie, folks usually file out of the theatre, head towards the restroom, and/or head out the door of the theatre to their remaining evening. That was not quite completely the case with this movie, Food, Inc. There were folks that congregated in the theatre lobby that wanted to talk about what they had just seen. It was a bit of an impromtu discussion. Some of the passing comments that I heard echoed my thought that the movie was not as graphic as expected. (click here for previous Food, Inc. blog post) Other comments shared were around events going on in the local area that support the ideas of “what can we do about it”.
Our group of girls got together and had a few topics discussed of our own. Two interesting subjects we talked about were the state of school lunches and the use of hand sanitizer. As you can imagine, several of us girls have newly school aged kids. How do we make a statement of encouragement to our children’s schools that current lunches need to be relooked at? One thing that we do is our kidlet brings her lunch everyday. That way, we, her parents, make the choice regarding what goes on her plate. Do I hold a degree in nutrition? nope. Realizing this is a touchy subject, I’ll leave it at that. Sufficed to say that we had some dialog on school lunches. We must not be the only ones since the PTA newsletter had a link for Slowfood USA’s National Eat-in as an effort to get real food in schools. While the latest Atlanta Eat-in date has passed (Monday), you can still sign the petition and spread the word. It seems that Monday’s turn out was greater than expected. While health care is a serious issue on the books in Congress as of late, you can’t deny that the food we eat is not related to our level of health.
The other topic we discussed after the movie was hand sanitizer. How is that related to this movie? It’s not really other than it was a natural progression from our previous discussion on school lunches. Many schools across our nation take a bit of a short cut on hand washing by using hand sanitizer instead. Is this healthy for our children? Doubtful. Does the residue from these products remain on our kids’ hands ready for ingestion? I can’t imagine that not happening. Why is it that we can’t use plain ol’ soap and water? Are we really saving time by using these products? I’d much rather see our school kids use a light natural foam soap instead. If that doesn’t sound like a Dr. Flower’s Essential, I don’t know what does! Foam soap coming soon!
Happy Washing!
~Regina