Last thoughts

  I'm happy to be back to normal today. Normal meaning I don't have to give much thought about worrying how I'm going to stretch my food budget. I love eating, love cooking, it is a big part of my life. I think I would get grumpy and bitter if I had to live like that all the time.


Could we possibly change our priorities as a nation on how we address food insecurity? How can we be okay knowing 40 million people have to rely on SNAP to get by, even when having that is not enough and families have to turn to food banks. Could we exchange the cost of making one of these for food, or just a portion of the 2012 base military budget of $531 billion dollars? And hey, that figure does not even include the cost of Iraq and the Afghanistan war.

Huge Kudos to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, King County Executive Dow Constantine, and everyone else taking part in this years United Way Hunger Challenge. And thanks to United Way for raising our awareness of the issue of hunger in America.

www.uwkc.org

I'm happy to have been part this collective experience and wish for every person who has a say in how much people should eat, determines whether or not someone makes a living wage or even gets to have a paid sick day, that they too would try to take on this Hunger Challenge.

 I hope we all can imagine a world where we have a place at the table.