Lori-Lyn Hurley
"We need to expand farmers markets and the amount of food grown locally and organically, he said, and we need to educate people about nutritional foods.
Every school student should know "how to buy a healthy meal, how to prepare a healthy meal, and have a little gardening skills," Winne said. "If we don't make that kind of investment now, we will pay a higher cost down the road" in chronic health problems.
Too often, he said, during the upcoming season of giving, we will make a donation to a food bank, thinking that will solve the problem.
"Not addressing the root cause," Winne said. "That is poverty. We as a nation have backed away from the problem of poverty."
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