Stop Poverty, Eat Green and Healthy

This post is what I am contributing to Blog Action Day.  This is a day where bloggers from around the world come together to write about one topic.  This year’s Blog Action Day topic is poverty.

Poverty is Ramped

Poverty is ramped throughout the world today, on a daily bases millions go without.  Poverty is described as a “deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of citizens.”(Poverty@Wikipedia).  So how do we heal such a wide spread problem that affects nearly half of the human population?

Greed is the Biggest Cause

My answer is to educate everyone on what is really causing the problem: greed. This one single item, I feel, is causing poverty to spread far and wide.  We are seeing the money supply shift to the wealthy and stripped from the poor and middle class daily.  We have become a society based on what I call the “me philosophy”.  By this, I mean we no longer care about each other and we are into every endeavor for what’s in it for “me”.  I think the best example of a culture that does not follow this philosophy is the Amish.  The Amish are a prime example of what we should be to our friends and neighbors.  When a member of their culture has an issue with food, clothing, shelter, and even health care, they as a society come together to ensure that the person gets the care and attention they need.  This simple change is all it would take for our modern society to eliminate poverty.  Greed would turn into good deeds, we as people would come together as one.  United we would stand, proud that everyone is strong, healthy and happy.

Educate everyone about unhealthy eating

This could end up being a long process, as the corporate world would not like to see this happen.  If we started caring about one another as individuals, there would no longer be a need for unhealthy foods.  We would educate our brothers and sisters on the correct foods to consume for healthy vibrant living.  We would begin to plant and provide each other with nourishing rich food straight from the earth.  Consuming raw foods as humans were designed.  The need for huge hospitals and pharmaceutical dependencies would decrease as our eating habits improved.  Health care expenses would be reduced across the board and we would be become a stronger and healthier society in the long run.  Sure in the beginning there would be a huge economical impact, but we would survive as we would be working for the good of each other.  It is pretty obvious that diseases are created by poor eating habits, including cancer, obesity, heart disease and many others.  Along with disease comes poverty as people cannot afford the required health care.  Many middle class families have become victims of poverty due to increasing healthcare costs.  This would rapidly decline as we become an educated, caring society.  Along with the shrinkage in hospitals and fast food joints would be the elimination of pharmacies.  We would begin to educate the world that pharmaceutical drugs do not solve any problems – they only mask the symptoms.  While masking these symptoms they begin to wreak havoc on other parts of our body.  I feel with these changes health care would become real health care the way it was intended in the beginning.  No longer would it be this huge profit mongering machine that sucks the life out of anyone and everything – with huge government and educational ties swaying everyone’s decision making abilities and government agency in place designed to hide the real truth from the people.  We need to work together to let the truth out of the bag.  This would free everyone from the mercies of the corporation and we would again go back to a caring and loving society here for the benefit and good of humanity as a whole.  Through these simple actions we could eliminate poverty and end the needless suffering.  No longer would someone do without.  People would again understand how to grow their own food, how to build homes and how to care for each other.  When someone is in need, friends and neighbors from far and near would come together to support that need.

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