Thank You for this extensive report, Brie. I wish you well with these efforts.
The tastes of a young palate seem to set-in around 16 months of age, and kids become "picky eaters" after that, resisting what is not familiar to them.
This may be an evolutionary adaptation to keep toddlers from eating poisonous weeds when they wander from the hunter-gatherer camp. I don't know, but it is an easy way to think of it.
The best place to start with healthy fresh produce would be in the very early programs, where green beans, blackeyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard-greens, kale (fresh and cooked) and so on. The only black people I know who like collard greens like them because they grew up with them from grandma's or mom's garden, and they are older folks...
I grow collard greens in my vegetable gardens, and they are quickly accepted by those who grew up with them. We have the conversation right away when I offer them.
I hope this perspective is useful to you. I am happy to engage. I have given this considerable thought over the last 20 years.
I am friends with Meryl Nass MD and John Klar Esq. I presented a couple of times at CHD's Attacks on Food and Farming conferences, the How-To-Plan-Make-and-Grow your vegetable garden talk.
All this is wonderful, and kudos to all who worked hard to make it happen, but something has to be done about the use of glyphosate on our food or it is all for naught!
This is a fantastic initiative, which supports local farming, increases efficiency by eliminating some middlemen, resets children's tastes and ultimately that of the entire state, and improves health overall. My only word of caution is that the food behemouths are probably already circling this wagon lest it get out of hand, and their arguments will be that it limits choice (why should kids have to eat fresh carrots when what they want is Lunchables?), gives rise to local corruption between education and agriculture departments (as opposed to the federal corruption we have grown to love and respect), and will bring down the entire American food industry as all that surplus corn goes begging. So lawyers, please start preparing now, because there's not a movement this administration makes that doesn't have the potential of making an opposing law firm rich.
Wonderful news. Our family eats meat, veggies and salads and happy to hear kids at school can eat healthy, too.
This is great!
Thank You for this extensive report, Brie. I wish you well with these efforts.
The tastes of a young palate seem to set-in around 16 months of age, and kids become "picky eaters" after that, resisting what is not familiar to them.
This may be an evolutionary adaptation to keep toddlers from eating poisonous weeds when they wander from the hunter-gatherer camp. I don't know, but it is an easy way to think of it.
The best place to start with healthy fresh produce would be in the very early programs, where green beans, blackeyed peas, sweet potatoes, collard-greens, kale (fresh and cooked) and so on. The only black people I know who like collard greens like them because they grew up with them from grandma's or mom's garden, and they are older folks...
I grow collard greens in my vegetable gardens, and they are quickly accepted by those who grew up with them. We have the conversation right away when I offer them.
I hope this perspective is useful to you. I am happy to engage. I have given this considerable thought over the last 20 years.
I am friends with Meryl Nass MD and John Klar Esq. I presented a couple of times at CHD's Attacks on Food and Farming conferences, the How-To-Plan-Make-and-Grow your vegetable garden talk.
Deciding Where To Grow Vegetables https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables
Preparing Your Kitchen Garden https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden
Growing Food https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food
I had no idea what kind of junk was being served to the school kids.
All this is wonderful, and kudos to all who worked hard to make it happen, but something has to be done about the use of glyphosate on our food or it is all for naught!
https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/event/feeding-america-safely-practical-path-forward-pesticides
This is a fantastic initiative, which supports local farming, increases efficiency by eliminating some middlemen, resets children's tastes and ultimately that of the entire state, and improves health overall. My only word of caution is that the food behemouths are probably already circling this wagon lest it get out of hand, and their arguments will be that it limits choice (why should kids have to eat fresh carrots when what they want is Lunchables?), gives rise to local corruption between education and agriculture departments (as opposed to the federal corruption we have grown to love and respect), and will bring down the entire American food industry as all that surplus corn goes begging. So lawyers, please start preparing now, because there's not a movement this administration makes that doesn't have the potential of making an opposing law firm rich.
Wait wait: Where did you decide meat eating was healthy? What is your science reference?