Written by Brady Walen, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Coordinator & Jen Michaelis Van Arkel, Slow Food Portland Time for Lunch Committee Member
Over the past several months, Slow Food chapters around the country have been promoting the Time for Lunch campaign in an effort to provide children with real food at school. Locally, Slow [...]

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For Slow Food Portland’s upcoming Labor Day Picnic with the Time-Based Art Festival, we’re lucky enough to not only be partnering with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, but also with a collection of excellent Portland-based school lunch advocates. These groups are already working on-the-ground to bring about cafeteria reform, and are a large part [...]

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Peanuts. Pistachios. Popcorn seasoning. Cookie Dough. Greens. Beef. Beef. Beef. Wide-scale outbreaks of foodborne illness of slammed our country this year, leaving legislators scrambling to come up with an appropriate response. Over the last month or so, we’ve begun to see the first steps towards new regulations and laws, but real change has yet to [...]

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Today, Slow Food USA launches it’s first-ever national policy campaign for school lunch reform. With chapters across the country, we will join together to declare that it’s Time for Lunch, and time for our country to prioritize the overhaul of the Childhood Nutrition Act. Revitalized legislation will address low-income food insecurity and childhood obesity, but [...]

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Not to be outdone by her husband’s remarks to the American Medical Association, the First Lady held her very own press conference from the White House Kitchen Garden, just a few days after the President spoke about the connection between healthy eating and healthcare. Her speech - ostensibly a thank-you-and-stick-with-it message to the Bancroft students [...]

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Just prior to last year’s presidential elections, Michael Pollan penned his now-famous open letter to the next President or, as Pollan would have it, our next “Farmer in Chief.” In the letter, Pollan neatly laid out the interconnectedness of food issues with all of the key campaign topics of the major candidates. He wrote:
[This] brings [...]

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This urgent call-to-action comes from Deborah Kane and our partners at Ecotrust Food & Farms
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There is a bill pending in the Oregon legislature that would make is possible for us to get better food into public schools across the state - HB 2800. You can read all about the bill and on-going advocacy efforts here: [...]

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Photo courtesy of Flickr user chalkdog
If you want proof that kids already know right from wrong, just look to Madison, Wisconsin, where fourth-grade students organized to take a stand against the poor school lunch program. As told by Slow Food USA, the students of Nuestro Mundo Elementary School planned to share a home-cooked meal as [...]

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Reporter Sarah Mirk of the Portland Mercury had a chance to follow along on some of the events and tours held during the recent Farm to Cafeteria Conference. Her write-up on the Mercury blog shares her experiences visiting the Food Innovation Center, a farmer who supplies public school cafeterias in Kaiser, and the Truitt Brothers [...]

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On Sunday evening, 60 Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Alice Waters and her role as major advocate for Slow Food. To be sure, it is a big step for the mainstream recognition of the food movement, but it hasn’t come without a lot of debate in response. Within hours of the episode airing on [...]

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