Sentences with phrase «big school food issues»

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«We're a very environmentally - aware school and we encourage the children to think about bigger issues», said Carys Martin, Food for Life Co-ordinator at the school.

A la carte (or «competitive») foods are a big, problematic issue in American public schools — more on a la carte next week.

Many big issues here, including, as school food advocate Dana Woldow discussed with me in an off line email, the real stigma likely created by giving nonpaying kids something different from everyone else.

I think the bigger issue is our «starve the government» mentality that has every agency (or in this case, school food program) supporting itself.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

Lunch Tray readers come from all over the U.S. (and the world), so I don't want to get too deep into a Houston - specific issue, but then I realized that this correction could be a springboard for a bigger discussion about the future of school food in America.

For today's Buffet: big issues contributing to the school lunch mess; twenty kid foods to avoid; delicious - looking school lunch in India (hint: it's mom - made); and getting a little crazy with the Fry - O - Lator down in Texas.

Overall, though, the post does touch on some big issues that underlie the problems with school food.

Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

School food reform is a BIG, multi-faceted issue, and working with your district to create change can feel like biting off more than...

I do not bemoan public interest in school lunch issues and sketchy additives, but it is crucial to not lose sight of the big picture — «pink slime» is one of many symptoms of a broken food system.