Comments on: Organic vs. Conventional Foods? Count Your Blessings

By: Michele Khurana

Michele Khurana — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:28:51 +0000

Lynn,
Check out the Akshaya Patra Foundation at FoodForEducation.org. They are distributing 800,000 nutritious, delicious, vegetarian meals daily (six days a week) to “under served” children in various states in India; their goal is 1 million per day by 2010.

The food is great (I’ve tasted it)and is cooked in very clean, state of the art facilities. Funds are audited. Has been operating for years. Great people too! $28 feeds a child for a whole year!

That’s amazing…what a great way to contribute…$28 for a year. I belong to a group called TIE that has a lot of Indian members …I’m going to mention it to them…what a great charity for that group to support! — Lynn

By: Dagny McKinley

Dagny McKinley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:27:52 +0000

Thanks for opening my eyes back up. It’s so easy to get caught up in the small day to day details of our lives that I forget how many starving, sick and dying people there are in the world without food, medical aid and love. I am so lucky. Thank you for reminding me.

Dagny McKinley
http://www.onnotextiles.com
organic apparel

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Farmers Market Fare 3 : Eat. Drink. Better. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:11:49 +0000

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By: matt

matt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:57:49 +0000

Strong post! And very true. Just yesterday I was pondering some things we have to deal with financially, and had a lightbulb go off that we are so extremely fortunate to have what we have, eat what we eat, etc.

And then I read your post (especially after catching up on the news from the week). Very good stuff.

Thanks so much, Matt! — Lynn

By: Equa Yona

Equa Yona — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:51:42 +0000

I would suggest Oxfam as an excellent hunger and development organization.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Bread For The World is a lobbying organization that involves people in churches, colleges etc in letter writing campaigns
http://www.bread.org/
Greenpa at http://littlebloginthebigwoods.blogspot.com/
has a hunger campaign going. And I have written about how eating meat impacts the environment and world hunger http://equayonabigbear.blogspot.com/

By: Janice Thomas

Janice Thomas — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:10 +0000

Lynn,

This has been weighing heavily on me as well and I applaud your sense of justice and the reminder that it is not ” all about me”. Thank you. My husband and I are moving in June and will donate all of our canned goods to the local food bank as well as making a financial contribution. We are blessed indeed. Thanks for the reminder.

Peace
Janice

By: Rejin/Urban Botany

Rejin/Urban Botany — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:24:44 +0000

Thanks for putting the problems of American families in a broader context.
“Think globally, act locally” doesn’t let us off the hook when it comes to what is going on in the rest of the world, does it. I hope we can learn to care for our families without forgetting about how our choices (and our government’s trade policies) affect people in the developing world.

By: Amy @ The Q Family

Amy @ The Q Family — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:54:19 +0000

Thank you for reminding us how fortunate and rich we are. I consider myself rich. Not by anyone’s standard but by my own standard. We have a house, cars and food. We can afford some organic items on our budget but not all. Thank you for sharing other great organizations that we can involve to help others who are less fortunate.

Amy @ The Q Family

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:46:03 +0000

Thanks for posting on this Lynn, it’s something that has been on my mind a lot too. I think it is really important to support programs that help promote local solutions to hunger and environmental issues, such as permaculture. Permaculture helps to teach people how to be more self-sufficient, and efficient in the use of resources, ie building healthy soils by composting, worm-farming and mulching, capturing and using rainfall on site, companion planting, keeping chickens and other animals, etc. If anyone knows a good group helping to promote permaculture in developing countries please let me know, as I would love to donate a percentage of a the profits from my organic business to such a group.

Thanks for this interesting response, Annie. I don’t know much about permaculture, but I’ll have to learn more! — Lynn

By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:45:15 +0000

I donate to http://www.whatiffoundation.org, my very dear friend margaret started this remarkable org. She has made amazing strides with i. Locally we have 2 places to give to, food drives occur in many ways and I am always creating a bagfulfor others

I currently have a very very tight budget for my groceries - feeding a family of 2 who actually eat 3 square is a challenge, i buy carefully and buy organic as I want to fuel that economy - i have been in worse fiscal situations and still bought organics - just ate lots of beans and rice!!

yes, and lentils, too, right?!! Thanks, Mother Earth! — Lynn