Food Over-Security

The first Paper I wrote in English 101 was about Food Insecurity, which plagues 14% of people in the United States. A large part of my paper was about the link between obesity and food insecurity - in the US, it is easy to imagine someone who is poor and fat, because healthy food is more expensive.

On this week of Halloween, the unhealthy food is FREE. What a perfect holiday to describe what is wrong with the glorification of corn syrup! Free sugar-highs, free fat, free cavities!

On Wednesday, I hung out with some homeless kids and took them trick-or-treating and felt the twinge of regret about the cultural norms that makes this the "right" things to do. However as I joined in eating a rice-crispy and painted fake blood (who knows how many carcinogens are in that dye?) on their faces, I was proud of them, I was happy that they were happy, and I loved watching them ask for cheap Mexican candy from the flower shops on their street. Despite what I know about food security, the homeless, and government-subsidized-GMO-cornsyrup, I'm still a sucker for Halloween.