For every 1,000 people, 13 babies are born in the US. These babies do not choose to come and explore the world, they are forced. Moreover, they do not come here housed with little memory chips loaded with knowledge preparing them to fend for themselves nor do they come equipped with a strong, nutritional foundation. These babies are born with the sole purpose to become dependent on their creators for the first, crucial years of their lives. So when they are born into families that cannot properly take care of them, especially nutrition wise, they suffer extremely steep consequences for something that they simply cannot control.
When babies, particularly ages 0-3 years of age, do not receive the proper nutrition that is required to build a strong foundation, their future pretty much consists of complications with physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity (the ability to get a job). Not only does food insecurity drastically affect the children who fall victim to it, it also affects America as a whole in terms of robbing the nation of imagination and ingenuity in future leaders. And due to America being robbed of this imagination and ingenuity, other countries are starting to become the "best of the best" causing the American economy to lose its competitive edge.
So the question now is whether or not we risk the well being of our future leaders and continue to ignore a problem that is smacking us right in the face or do we take action and stop allowing other countries to kick our asses in the competition of ingenuity? Because whether we want to admit it our not, our country is continuously giving out our knowledge and skills to other countries everyday by graduating more foreign exchange students (from some of the most prestigious universities) than that of our own due to the lack of nutrition we provide our youth on a day to day basis.
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