One More Reason to Homeschool?

To Market, courtesy of the Library of Congress

While we have chosen to Home-educate/disciple our children for theological and philosophical reasons, after today there is yet one more pragmatic reason added to a growing list…the latest meat recall.

The largest meat recall in US history has occurred after undercover video was shot by Humane Society operatives which captured on tape horrendous treatment of sick and injured cattle at the Hallmark/Westland meat packing plant. The recall occurred because they were unable to prove that the meat from these weak and sickened animals didn’t make it into the products leaving the plant.

While this story further illustrates the problems of large-scale, industrial farming, the part of the story that is additionally troubling is where this meat most likely ended up…in the school lunch program. Isn’t it a comfort to know, that in an attempt to make our education tax dollars stretch far enough to pay our teachers’ union dues, benefits/salaries, administrators, computers, janitors, etc. that school boards across the country feed school-aged children the cheapest beef they can find?

Thankfully, McDonalds has assured consumers that they don’t buy their meat from Hallmark/Westland…maybe, like Pepsi and Coke, they could invest in our educational system and begin sponsoring lunch rooms across the country to provide a safer product for these developing minds…

I think we’ll serve peanut butter and jelly today…

From Genesis 41:

And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine.