Sentences with phrase «food put on our tables»

We have to connect the food put on our tables and in our lunch sacks to the fields we drive by on our vacations and to fields and feedlots we will never see.

These extreme changes in the climate do not only impact our land; they affect how much we earn and what food we put on the table for our children.

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Licensing creative work for the consumer market can put food on the table.

And he needed work: «My wife at the time was pregnant and I needed to put food on the table.»

Piled high on a side table is enough junk food — potato chips, popcorn and Oreo cookies — to put an extra five pounds on every person in the room.

When something happens that «stresses you out,» the reality is, it's probably not that bad in comparison to the many people who struggle daily to put food on the table, or to even have a job or career.

Sakima describes a time when her parents struggled to put food on the table.

You just want to keep the lights on, put food on the table, and grow your idea into something great.

Unless the residents are working for the band office or a government - run social service, they're almost certainly unemployed — and more often than not, addicted to prescription painkillers at the expense of putting food on the table for their families.

«They are changes that recognize the reality of poverty and hunger today and that more working families need help to put food on the table.»

Her current take - home pay of $ 788 per month from the Protein Bar won't pay for her Chicago apartment and allow her to put food on the table.

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Sueing worked throughout his high school years, starting as a janitor his sophomore year, to put food on the table for him, his four siblings, and his parents.

My father had a paper route since he was in the fourth grade to help put food on the table.

«She says speeches don't put food on the table,» Mr. Obama said in Youngstown.

Nafta didn't put food on the table, either.»

From day one, children are facing poverty as parents with disabilities struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table.

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«Being able to share foods like fruits and vegetables, milk and eggs in order to put healthy meals on the table makes all the difference for families living with hunger.»

The only times you should even think about doing it if you've absolutely exhausted every other resource and can't put a roof over your head or food on your family's table.

Whether gays marry will not have any effect on how much food you can put on your table.

For example, despite increases in poverty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recently released hunger data shows that the percentage of families struggling to put food on the table remained unchanged for the third consecutive year.

It puts food on their tables — but they still have to be responsible... in fact, I suspect that if you don't have the power to give someone some opportunity to grow and learn, then you either have gutted the educational system and load up your bank accounts, or you have abdicated your power to someone who does.

Yes, waste another half million on a statue, when they have fellow Christians having a hard time putting enough food on the table each night.

He said, «I am a part time pastor of a small congregation and I sell copiers to put food on the table.

Those who are disabled should be given the dignity of enough public assistance that they can at least put a decent roof over their heads and put food on their tables.

EVERYONE takes turns helping to clean the church buildings, EVERYONE gives sermons, or teaches classes, or helps with music if they have a musical background, helps prepare and send meals to members who are sick, helps other members when they move, helps set up the tables and put the food out for gatherings, visits other members on a monthly basis to find out if they need help with anything.

Their lies are quite natural, like the way we rationalize and excuse our own greed: «It's getting harder to put food on the table.»

The budget «makes huge, irresponsible cuts hurts families who are struggling to find jobs and put food on the table, but provides big tax breaks for millionaires and large corporations whose profits are soaring,» Kelly says.

It is not hard for anyone in this church, for anyone in this neighborhood, to put food on the table.

The Salvation Army's director for community services, Tony Daniels said: «Staff and volunteers at our churches and social centres across the UK have seen growing numbers of individuals and families on low incomes who are struggling to put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads.

«And besides, Gladys,» said Henry Smith, «you know that it's getting harder every day to put food on the table.

My parents worked extremely hard to be able to put food on the table, sometimes holding down two jobs at a time.

Your worldly profession may be rancher, or contractor, or mill worker, or businessman, but that is just something to put food on the table.

He has to put food on the table.

After all, listening to sermons never put any food on the table.

According to her, the legal trouble all centers around her trying to stay in the United States: «The only thing that I've done is use false documents to put food on the table of my family,» Vizguerra told Inside Edition through a translator at the church.

Hunting is a time - consuming and inefficient way of putting food on the table.

It's definitely worthwhile to take just a moment to remember all of the human effort that's required to put food on our tables.

While there are more efficient means for putting food on the table for urban and suburban dwellers, there are still some, even in developed nations, for whom hunting is a reasonable method for obtaining nutrition.

If we believe that all are made in his image and likeness, why not thank those putting food on the table?

I knew right away that it filled my need for some gratitude shared with family and thanks for everyone who worked to put that food on our table.

Sure, it puts food on the table.

My husband hunts to put food on the table if we didn't we wouldn't be eating as well as we do.

I'm always happy to share a table with friends and as a 23 year old, I'm always thankful I have a good job to put food on the table.

The very act of putting food on the table became a near insurmountable task.

I might think about it when god starts paying my rent and puts food on the table.

«During that time many families are faced with no household income and are really struggling to pay bills and put food on the table.

But it is the evil reality of most organized religions, that regardless of how many good intentions leaders start out with, they mean nothing under the pressure they come under in order to please the masses, their particular denominational mandates, and to be able to put food on the family table.