I Propose.....

As time has passed our society has done nothing, but go downhill.  A lot of people are poor and even more are struggling to get a meal.  Everyday in America we throw away and/or waste way too much food. For example, after reading The American Way of Eating   I realized that grocery stores such as Wal-Mart will throw such things like a whole bag of grapes or carton of strawberries just because one is bad.  How wasteful is that? Why are we so picky?  In America I think that we have it made because in other countries like Africa a majority of their population are starving.  Granted I know that their are plenty of people in the USA that are hungry as well, but nothing like in Africa. We need to stop being so stingy and enjoy the luxuries we have.
I'm not sure if I have told anyone in this class yet, but I am in college so I can become an elementary teacher.  That being said my proposal is based on helping provide students with a sack dinner to bring home at the end of the day.  Unfortunately, some children only get to eat when they are at school because their parents or guardians may not have a lot of money to provide a dinner or may be working when they get home from school so they can't make a meal for themselves.  I have seen situations like this time and time again.  While I was doing my pre-internship at a school I noticed a kid who would eat as much as they would give him for breakfast and lunch and I always wondered why.  Later I found out that child did not get a regular dinner every night so they were eating as much as they could to help if they didn't get dinner.  What is my point in all this?  I propose that students who are on any type of food assistance in school not only get free breakfast and lunch, but also get a take home dinner.  How will this all work?  Well I don't know if anyone pays attention to the lottery, but in order to pay for this we will raise the price of a mega millions ticket from $1 to $2 and 1/4 of the money spent on a mega millions ticket will go to funding my proposal.  But wait it gets better... Not only will the money go just to buy the food it will also be used to help in the process of taking food that is thrown away at the end of the night (but still good) from groceries, cafes, and restaurants to schools to be used for the take home dinners.  So not only will this help make sure students get a dinner to eat, but it also will cut down on all of our food waste.  I did some research on this and found out that someone is basically already doing something to my proposal which I think is awesome.  CHECK IT OUT!