Geneva Conventions standard absolute minimum for human daily caloric intake is 1600 calories per day per adult and 1200 to 1400 per child depending on height and activity. Perhaps a happy medium could be put into place of 1600 calories for children under 16 and 1800 for adults. Daily caloric of 2200 to 2600 could be offered to those who are required to work harder and longer days in the public and government services.
The time of food being presented to children by clowns, obsolete kingly figures, and cartoon characters must find it's end on the dust heap of the twentieth century, and the promises of the twenty first century must finally be effectuated. The day of the "Happy Meal" is over. Now is the time to support House Bill HR 2749, the food enhancement and safety act. Although this bill has passed the house, it is stalled in the senate. Senate bill S 510 has the same components of the house bill with an added feature to specifically list what food consumers would and would not be permitted to eat, what may be grown agriculturally, traded, transported ,or shared among the citizenry. Last activity on this bill was last month (May 2010) and appears to be stalled. Proaction is needed if America is going to stop fattening our children and wasting limited ecological and agricultural resources.
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