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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.