Picking up my box of organic fruit and vegetables from Share, a non-profit, volunteer-run food buying club program, it occurred to me how affordable healthy food can be when people work together. I wish Share would sell more than organic vegetables, fruit and ground beef, but I am thankful for these items. Corporations work together and thus ‘fast food’, usually not so healthy, is cheaper than healthy food.

Will Allen of Growing Power says the good food movement is now a revolution. I hope so, but as of now I see it as more the latest ‘big thing’ and but not really revolutionary. Until we can make healthy food ‘affordable’ I do not think the good food movement will be a revolution. Money matters in this world where we live.

A sad example of how much money matters is in the halt today of evacuating seriously injured Haitian persons to Miami for surgery. When the state of Florida questioned who was paying for the medical attention, the White House halted emergency evacuation of Haitians to the USA. This is forcing overcrowding and dangerous conditions at the hospital set up at the airport, which will result in one or two hundred deaths in the next few days.

A positive news story of how money matters was the report today how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will spend 10 billion dollars in the next ten years to vaccinate children all over the world, saving about 8 million lives.

As I see it the only way we can overcome a world that operates on “money matters” is a world where we, the people, work together.

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