"The protection of life includes taking reasonable measures to maintain the gift of our physical health by proper nutrition and exercise.  In addition to these personal responsibilities, the community has an obligation to protect the common good through policies to support public health." -Bishop David Fellhauer, Diocese of Victoria

Child Nutrition programs provide millions of children with nutritious meals. For many children, these programs provide their only meals of the day. Meeting the needs of so many families in need of basic nutrition is an important investment that also provides a stimulative effect for agriculture, for local businesses and for communities.  

Quotes from Catholic Teaching:

"Hunger threatens not only people's lives but also their dignity. A serious and protracted lack of food breaks down the organism, generating apathy, a loss of a social sense, and indifference or even cruelty towards those who are weaker — particularly children and the elderly. (Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”, World Hunger A Challenge for All: Development in Solidarity)" 

"And how can we fail to consider the violence against life done to millions of human beings, especially children who are forced into poverty, malnutrition and hunger because of an unjust distribution of resources between peoples and between social classes. (Blessed John Paul II, The Gospel of Life)"

"Unfortunately, there are many children who suffer: the physical sufferings of hunger, want, disease or illness; moral sufferings resulting from mistreatment by their parents, from their discord, from the exploitation to which the cynical selfishness of adults sometimes subjects them. How can our hearts not be moved by certain situations of unspeakable pain involving defenseless creatures guilty of nothing other than being alive? How can we not protest on their behalf, lending our voices to those who cannot make their own interests known? (Blessed John Paul II, Children Are A Special Gift to the Church)"