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Why Don’t They Win
There are moments, usually late, usually quiet, when honest thinking can be had. When you zoom out and see the ecosystem around children not as a collection of caring institutions, but as a set of incentive machines. And incentive machines, unlike grandmothers, do exactly what they’re built to do.
MAKE MONEY
Tonight I sat with some difficult thoughts about the state of primary services for children in the United States. The deeper I look, the clearer it becomes that money, not well-being, drives most decisions shaping a child’s life. And the imbalance is not trending in a positive direction.
Children Continue To Lose From My Viewpoint
Approximately two-thirds of a child’s daily nourishment comes from school food programs, which too often rely on ultra-processed, calorie-dense, nutrient-poor products. Outside of school, the dominant food environment is similarly saturated with highly engineered foods that optimize profit, shelf life, and palatability rather than health. Kids are micronutrient starved, but calorically overfed. Biological systems begin to fray early. Biochemistry no longer meets cellular needs. Children develop disease and we are asked to medicate or worse rationalize away that this is NORMAL…..
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