Collecting My Thoughts

I don’t specifically buy organic because it is so commercialized (even has special support from USDA). Organic farming uses pesticides , a...

USDA is heavily involved in “natural” and “organic” farming  (certification, regulation, promotion, collecting economic data, lending, etc.)...

We never see improvement and the rolls of both poverty workers and the needy continue to grow. Hunger became "food insecurity" and...

Both liberals and conservatives have ideas about people on food stamps that need adjusting.  If you volunteer at a food pantry you'll se...

Today I shopped at Marc’s especially for groceries to take to church for the Thanksgiving service.  I’ve volunteered there so I know what is...

We were talking about the "Souper Bowl" where we collect cans of soup for the food pantry to coincide with the Super Bowl. She sai...

Beginning in 2011, I’ve consciously bumped our tithe to 11%, by adding in 1% for food for the Lutheran Food Pantry, although I’d been donati...

Today in the Wall Street Journal I saw a very clever ad sponsored by Morgan Stanley about "food insecurity."  It was a large graph...

You can help the unemployed and low-income while helping your local economy. As the holidays near, you'll be getting a lot of appeals f...

"According to the USDA's annual poll, 17 million U.S. households reported some degree of food insecurity in 2008, up from 13 millio...

What will you do with your "stimulus" check? According to the AARP web site: "More than 52 million Social Security beneficia...

Cash or cans? Food is flying off the shelves at food pantries across the country. Instead of the clients being people on food stamps, it...

Why there were more hungry children in 2007 Hunger will never go away in the USA because the government keeps redefining and refining what t...

Change round up This doesn't look like a good idea to me. Keep your change, dig it out of the bottom of your purse, wallet or pocket and...

Rising food prices caused by rising gasoline costs The cost of gasoline is going up because of our current flailing, misguided, disastrous ...