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December 2008
Dear Friend of Food & Water Watch,
As a mom, an organic gardener, and as a pediatric nurse in Ohio I've been interested in food issues most of my life. In the past 5 years I've become a voracious reader on the subject. As you well know, the health of our planet, our food sources, our choices, and human and animal health are all closely linked. We must grow towards a wholistic and sustainable agriculture and food awareness in order for our Earth to continue to support us all.
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My kids have been vegetarians most of their lives so I get pretty creative in the kitchen. No vegetable is off limits! Tonight I'm making a miso broth soup with buckwheat udon noodles, shaved zuchinni, sweet potato, carrot, purple onion, bok choy, and edamame. Help me keep my kids' food safe.
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Food & Water Watch
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I discovered Food & Water Watch when they came to Ohio helping spearhead the work to promote safer milk over artificial hormones. I met Sarah Alexander – a food organizer – at one of the public hearings. It's easy to get frustrated with a corporation with a track record of say, Monsanto, but watching Sarah – and activists like her – working tirelessly around the country has kept me inspired.
Sometimes change is slow, but we never know what one moment will shift the tide in the direction of healthy change, so we just have to keep at it.
That's why I grow a lot of my family's food organically each summer in our small urban backyard, I shop local and organic, and I talk about food issues with everyone I know. I keep up-to-date with Food & Water Watch as a leader in this arena. I write letters to the editor a lot!
As a pediatric nurse, I see the consequences of inadequate and inferior food supplies. I'm hopeful to see the day when kids aren't hungry or going without, and the choices they have before them are all healthy ones. Wouldn't that be something?
However, right now I am very concerned that Big Agriculture (and the likes) will continue to fool us into poisoning our soils. I'm concerned that we'll sell off our freshwater sources to the highest bidder. I am concerned that clean, fresh and free water will not be honored as the right of every human globally.
I am also concerned for all of us that we won't learn from the mistakes. How we treat our planet; tend to the soil; grow our food; provide for our children's future – it's all connected. And the situation is critical. I've got a lot more I can say – I'm passionate about these issues – but I'm going to end here with an urgent plea that you make a generous year-end tax-free donation right now to Food & Water Watch because they are doing something about the issues I care about – and know you care about, too. Take it from a mom and a nurse. It's important.
Give generously to Food & Water Watch.
Peace,
Mitzie McElhaney, RN
Food & Water Watch Activist, Admirer, Supporter
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