Now with Calcium!

During a meeting earlier this morning, I watched a coworker feed her 11 month old baby Ritz crackers with "added calcium." Cluebag, the mother, sniffed inside the bag and said that it smelled rancid and pointed out the strange white powder covering the snacks. Then she saw the "calcium" marketing message on the bag and continued to feed them to her baby. The baby washed it down with some sips of soda from Mom's Big Gulp disposable plastic cup. Last week during our morning meeting, Cluebag fed her daughter some pinkish-white meat and bright orange cheese from a Lunchables container and shared her Coke. The week before that it was Corn Pop's cereal. I can't remember if the soda was part of breakfast that week or not. The baby can't walk or talk, but she's eating junk food on a daily basis. Welcome to the 21st Century obsesity boom! Would you like calcium with that?