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The Food We Eat

                                                Michelle Obama Campaigns for Obese Kids

This image is somewhat dated. We have gotten our cookies back! And school pizza has always sucked. However, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CAKE? Well, technically it's "banned". Yet, I haven't seen a food jail to be thrown into, so I think it's still alright.  Naturally, after the reformation of the entire school lunch menu, there would be a difference.

For those unaware of the changes, I will try to list them to the best of the memory.

• All the school portions have gone down. Not just by a bit either: the pretzels are about 1/3 size.
• I'm not sure how to describe the new meat, but it's sketchy. At least, more so than usual.
• All the chips are baked or reduced fat.
• Pop tarts and rice krispies are now whole grain (don't try the rice krispies).
•  All drinks are not energy drinks, vitamin drinks or diet. Plus all variations of water.
• Mandatory fruit or vegetable per meal (largely ignored).

As seen in the picture, the reaction was explosive. The animosity towards Mrs. Obama was palpable. 

Incoming 6th graders will never again experience the full glory of the snack bar. Incoming freshmen will never again experience snackhalla.

Michelle campaigned to help the children, but her help caused great suffering. Hopefully, the land of great munchies will return.

Serengeti Plains

      The Serengeti Plains is a immensely vast field filled with various mammals on the battlefield of the greatest hunt. Trees and watering holes dot the landscape filled with tall grass.  Lions, zebras, giraffes, elephants and more roam this land grazing and hunting. This is the Savanna.
      Seven months of dry season scorches the plains as the animals migrate all across the plain looking for the next oasis. The other five months is rain season getting up to twenty five inches of rain per month. Thornbushes, cacti, elephant grass crowd the area hiding the lions preying on the gazelles. A breathtaking sun fills the sky from one of the closest vantage points on Earth at dawn and dusk. Wild, exotic creatures in their natural habitat will roar their unrestrained roar. This is the Savanna.

Not to be confused with Africa. Just like New York and Miami symbolize America, so does the African Savannah symbolize Africa. However, any informed traveller could point out that half of the U.S. is plains and farms. Likewise, lots of Africa is desert and rainforest. Of course, the Serengeti is the archetypal savanna.

The millennial plague

Today the world is fighting. Everyone has decided that violence is always the answer. The words of Gandhi are no more than whispers of a forgotten haiku. Some take up arms; Some watch the horror. We are now used to war. Is there hope for peace, World Peace? Perhaps not. However, there is still hope: a protest, a sitdown, a rally for the future. Let us not be destroyed by our own race, the human race and may we swallow the pride that causes these collisions and be hot with humility. Hereafter, let us focus on the problems from without, not those that plague us from within for over 2000 years.