You're right. This should be prevention. Feeding people is prevention. We're all going to pay for it, in the end. The research is very clear. The health outcomes of children are very negative. We know they have lower educational outcomes in math and English—in all subjects. They can't concentrate. It's very simple. Think about when you're hungry. You become “hangry”. You can't focus. That's what's happening to families. They can't focus, because they don't have the nutrition in their brains to focus. You need that to make good decisions as well.
There's a domino effect when all you're accessing is terrible food. To Neil's point, when all you have is eight dollars, you can't buy broccoli, carrots or milk, because these are risks. You're not sure whether your kids will eat them, so you're not going to buy them. You're going to buy what you know all your kids will eat. It's a risk. Who thinks buying milk is a risk, in their own budget at home? Nobody here thinks that, but it is a risk for many people. They cannot purchase healthy food, because their kids won't eat it and they have only eight dollars.
We know the health outcomes. We're seeing them already. We see that type 2 diabetes and heart disease have increased. Strokes and cancer are increasing. A lot of this is food-related. Get the right diet into families and our health dollars will be less.