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I did manage to get over to the Congregational Church Saturday and took some photos of the “Crosses for Hunger.”
The display is very impressive and a good place for reflection of just how fortunate many of us are in this town and in this nation as a whole. Hunger is at the back door for many of us and not a worry. Food supplies are plentiful here-shortages are almost unheard of. Not so in many parts of our world.
Unfortunately, some of the photos look as if they are cut off. I have a new camera it is at a high resolution and when I upload the photos to WordPress, it can’t handle the quality and the width gets reduced.
I guess that is the problem. I will try to lower the resolution and hopefully solve the problem.
The first photo with the sign is skewed off to the right. It says “Crosses for 11,000 Kids That Die Each Hour from Preventable Diseases Like Hunger, Poverty, Disease”
The work it took to put these simple crosses together and put them into the ground with the Congregational Church as a background is a grim reminder of what reality many people, especially children, face each and every day in this world.
When I go to Kansas, I am reminded of just how delicate our food chain is. And people who take their food for granted-don’t understand the ramifications of the staggering loss of family farming. I remember when I was out at school attending a few auctions and seeing a hard-working farm family’s life work being sold off to the highest bidder.
This country and this world can lament the destruction of the family farm-you see the results in the news every day-E COLI in the meat, E-COLI in the Peanut butter-you know why? Because some CORPORATION whose only concern is a hefty bottom line now owns most of this country’s food chain, that is why. The family farmer CARED about his crop, his livestock, that was how he and she made a living- the ONLY WAY they knew how to make money and put food on the family table. What do these corporations care about-NOT YOU!!
Even today, when I say I lived in “Kansas” I hear people say: “Oh there is nothing out there-oh ha ha!!
Well you know what, you had better hope the “nothing out there” stays that way because where do you think you get your food from you big fat beer belly slob!! You like eating don’t you?
Maybe you like getting your food from Mexico and Chile and other foreign countries-you must like subjecting yourself to E-Coli. This was unheard of 25 and 30 years ago when the FAMILY owned the farms in this country, NOT THE CORPORATIONS.
These people worked the land. It was passed down from generation to generation. And they worked morning noon and night for less than minimum wage!! In debt to a Government that would not raise finger one to help them. People who fed us and lived an almost poverty lifestyle.
There used to signs on the roads all over Kansas that said: “Every Kansas farmer feeds 50 people besides themselves”
Not anymore.
