Health care is expensive, and Americans are sick. Instead of debating who should pay for all this, no one is asking the far more simple and imperative question: What is making us so sick, and how can we reverse this so we need less health care? The answer is staring us in the face, on average three times a day: our food.

The school system’s Summer Food Bus offers groceries free to any resident in the district with children. On Tuesdays, the bus travels to three stops in the western part of the district and on Fridays, it visits three in the east. The goal is to ease residents’ transportation burdens by getting as close to them as possible.

How much is your child’s health worth? The answer coming from the leadership of the US Environmental Protection Agency is: not that much. The EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, this week confirmed what many Americans already know: when the Trump administration weighs the competing interests of corporate profits versus public health, the corporations win, hands down.

Schoolchildren deserve access to fresh, locally grown food.

Yet the foods served up by most school cafeterias are bad for kids, bad for local farm businesses and bad for the environment.

Who gains when the school menu is full of chicken nuggets, “cheese” pizza, french fries and tater tots? Giant food corporations that support factory farms and chemical companies, like Monsanto.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Support the “Kids Eat Local Act!”