Putting bread on the table has been a primary job description for fathers since the beginning. Most of history’s dads have struggled to ensure daily food but today America’s biggest health problem for our poor and even pets is obesity. We are the most overfed and under nourished society ever. Improving our food supply involves taking a hard look at processes, additives and cutting corners. What good is saving a buck if we’re slowly poisoning ourselves in the process? Gluten intolerance has grown to about one in ten Americans but many forced to eat gluten-free here can feast on bread overseas where wheat isn’t routinely stripped of nutrients, then sprayed with folic acid to compensate.

We didn’t get here overnight and while the current head of Health and Human Services has made battling chronic illness a political crusade, correction will take years. Lasting action requires thousands to implement and monitor many course corrections. Men should actively read ingredients and discuss discoveries with friends. A 21^st century dad must investigate if any chronic health problem is connected to groceries. As those who frequent local farmers markets like to say, “you can pay your farmer or pay your doctor.”

The men who will help us all overcome and transform the food industrial complex are the kind who think of the next generation. What good is longer shelf-life now that medical care has become the largest segment of the U.S. economy? The same fathers that value family and lasting marriages will make the hard choices to steer our food supply away from petroleum-based additives and other hazards. At the local, state and national level, we heed our men to rise up in the often-absent role of fatherhood for both actual child rearing and sacrificially guiding society to wisdom in how to grow, harvest, process and deliver food for our table. Moms shouldn’t have to fight this battle alone. As men it’s time to rise up together and give a hoot to not pollute ourselves or our children.

Championing Fatherhood

We have a passion for calling men back to their primary role as the sacrificial cornerstone of families which in turn is the cornerstone to successful societies.