In January, the Senate Agriculture Committee managed to hammer out a bipartisan agreement that seemed to satisfy the major stakeholders, and it looked like
the school food fight was coming to an end.
Chances are, you've heard about about the highly publicized
school food fight going on in our nation's capital.
But in the meantime, I thought this short video from Politico «s Helena Bottemiller Evich was a great recap of the event — and the continuing
school food fight in Congress:
I do look a bit like I was in a middle
school food fight with oats all over my face, neck and chest; and the dogs are following me around smacking their lips, sniffing the air.
Not exact matches
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is
fighting to regulate commercial
foods served in
schools.
Fighting child hunger requires a holistic approach, from support programs like BIC and sharing resources that increase knowledge about this issue, to protecting federal
food assistance services like the
School Breakfast Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Bettina Elias Siegel who pens the always thought provoking The Lunch Tray fueled my
school food frustrations via this post about the political
fighting and blame going on over how and who is going to fix the
school lunch programs and more.
When advocates who share a common interest in
fighting child obesity are at each other's throats over whether chocolate milk is a tasty way for kids to get important nutrition, or the Drink of Satan, the whole
school food reform movement suffers, and that hurts kids.
A new paradigm in the
fight against childhood obesity and diet - related illnesses, Cook for America ® promotes
school food reform with an emphasis on holistic, systemic change.
That's because, despite having supported the HHFKA's passage back in 2010, the SNA is now
fighting vigorously to roll back in Congress many of the law's key nutritional requirements — and it is doing so on the grounds that kids are allegedly rejecting healthier
school food en masse.
Districts of all sizes are utilizing farm to
school programs to teach academic standards in
school gardens, support the local economy through local
food purchases for
school meals, and
fight childhood obesity and other preventable,
food - related diseases.
The Smart
Food Initiative, a group of six moms fighting for healthier food in Central Oregon's Bend - LaPine School District, also has felt the h
Food Initiative, a group of six moms
fighting for healthier
food in Central Oregon's Bend - LaPine School District, also has felt the h
food in Central Oregon's Bend - LaPine
School District, also has felt the heat.
Instead, the SNA's main allies in this
fight were House Republicans, which meant that
school food, historically a bi-partisan issue, became quite politicized.
Fighting for healthier
school food can feel like swimming upstream.
In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about
fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting
school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the
school junk
food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free
school meals.
is the mega-message
food and fitness experts hope to send next week at the first national «Healthy
Schools Summit» in Washington, D.C. Worried about the weight gain among American children, the experts and educators want to share ideas to help kids
fight fat.
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school food frustrations via this post about the political
fighting and blame going on over how and who is going to fix the
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Involve them in the
fight to insist that
food at their
school be fantastic, and show them what a small group of thoughtful, committed community members can accomplish together.
D.C. Public
Schools Fires Director of
Food Services Amid
Fight Over How Student Meals Are Served (The DCist.com, January 15, 2013)
School lunches are being re-examined across the country as first lady Michelle Obama campaigns to fight child obesity and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver takes on school lunches in his new ABC show, «Food Revolution.&
School lunches are being re-examined across the country as first lady Michelle Obama campaigns to
fight child obesity and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver takes on
school lunches in his new ABC show, «Food Revolution.&
school lunches in his new ABC show, «
Food Revolution.»
It seems to me that maybe part of the reason we are struggling so much to change
school meals to a more healthful state is that we are
fighting our (United States)
food values... overly marketed, quickly prepared, quickly eaten on the run meals.
I
fight the healthy
food battles at home, but at
school I'd rather her listen to her teachers even if it means sending in cupcakes and Lance crackers.
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School's out for the summer, but there's a
food fight going on in the cafeteria.
She should not be made a martyr in the
fight for better
school food.
Why anyone would be opposed to giving healthy
food to kids in
schools is beyond me, but
school food is a flash point for political
fights.
We've got plenty of challenges ahead, with the farm bill up for renewal and more
school food nutrition standards to
fight for, just for starters.
In its recent report, Still Too Fat to
Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk
food vending machines in
schools as a contributor to this problem.
The
school lunch standards are an important step in the national
food movement and the
fight against child obesity.