Entries from June 2009

Time for Lunch!

June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: policy · slow food usa · youth

School lunch reform is ready for harvest

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: news · policy · school lunch · youth

Add “Lunchlady in Chief” to his many duties?

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: policy · school lunch · youth