Changes in transportation methods have impacted our lives on more levels than the obvious. The advent of the transcontinental highway through the United States has lead to the movement and settlement of the western half of the US, but it has also allowed for the shipping of goods such as meats and vegetables to be transported thousands of miles from their point of actual origination. As a result the demand for goods has gone up leading to the shortened growing season and the year round confinement of some animals. In the end, it is the “microwave generations” need for perpetual instant gratification that has forced the artificial speed up in the growing cycle resulting in an un-natural growing and harvesting seasonal dynamic to perpetuate. When things are not allowed to follow their natural growing cycle then they are “stunted” in the process and therefore do not develop the level of nutritional content they are designed to have. One of the main health problems due to a lack of proper mineral content in food is the rise in obesity levels, in particular, among school age children. While it is good to applaud what the current occupants of the White House want to do with respect to improvements for school lunches, the reality is that unless we have a complete cultural identity change from a nation of consume it now ask questions later, then a single meal will not have the level of impact that it needs to when the message is not reinforced at home or via the airwaves.
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