Dear Piedmont Food Processing Center and Union For Southern Service Workers, and all readers of the blog.

Salads are the fastest of fast food because you can pre-package them, and don’t have to serve them hot.

How about pitching an idea to create healthy food at fast-food? Fast food restaurants all pretty much the same thing on the menu: hamburgers and fries. So if one restaurant was to break away from the whole and start selling locally grown food , then they could make a lot of money. Then if restaurants started competing with one another it might make fast food change. Imagine a culture that makes different products with different locally sourced vegetables.

It all starts with Garden Rangers and then it can evolve into something more. If different products started taking off we could we could launch grocery stores and co-ops. How does this shift start? It begins with salad kits. We can pitch our idea to fast food restaurant employees and managers, by giving them salad kits. This essentially local grown salads with tomato, cucumbers, carrots and radishes. The kits also has homade dressing too. The idea is to get people hooked on something. Salads are addictive just like cheeseburgers, and they don’t really cost a lot of money.

Ultimately this revolution is more than about healthy food. It’s about employing people with mental illness. We need to dedicate some of these healthy professions to people with mental health and addictions. We cannot stop until all people with mental illnesses are treated fairly. Growing the food for these salads are where people with mental illness and regular people can come together and heal one another. There are more than enough fast food restaurants, if we started to sell salad kits at each one, then we really could reach out to many people suffering to find healthy work in the cities.

How do you see Garden Rangers helping start such a movement?