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As the mother of a food allergic kid, I know what it's like to anger people by requesting they make changes in how they eat or prepare food. Food is primal, and requesting changes about something primal is hard.  I've been on the food allergy road already, and it's not easy, I'm on it, 24/7. (I founded the blog  Parents of Severely Peanut Allergic Kids   as on a successful group on  Facebook .) However, right now I'm talking about something very different, and not really connected to those issues, I'm talking about changing how we feed children in schools.  I'm talking about why we need to teach them about food and nutrition earlier than in high school. The reality is, the school lunches they're serving the kids roughly 180 days a year are unhealthy and actually hurting our children, and it's not the school cafeteria's fault, it's the state and federally mandated choices that are in  need of rethinking. Support Food Education

According to District 9 's filmmaker, Neill Blomkamp, the "prawn-like" aliens from his compelling sci-fi film, District 9 , look nothing like what he really imagines the real ones look like. (By the way, if you haven't seen District 9 , I found it to be an extremely imaginative, engrossing action film which also happens to be up for a whole bunch of Oscars, as well.) However, according to Blomkamp in this TED video, real extraterrestrials would not only look nothing like his District 9's bug-like creatures, but they would also be (if I have this correct) the inevitable extensions of our evolution in going from a Type "0" species, into a more evolved, Type "1" species. According to Blomkamp, he theorizes that the reason we don't find others like us in the universe is not because they don't exist, it's just that they never make the transition from singular civilizations into one unified global civilization (which he quotes being e