Comments on: School Lunch: Time For A New Model? http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/21/2341/ An urban insurgent's guide to real food for life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:22:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed Bruske http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/21/2341/comment-page-1/#comment-3204 Ed Bruske Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:35:25 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2341#comment-3204 Kim, I'll bet your mom has seen a lot to be depressed about. Kristen, eliminating junk food from schools has been pending for years in the form of legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. Still no action on that yet. We'll see whether Congress will find the money and political will to make school lunch universally free. Kim, I’ll bet your mom has seen a lot to be depressed about.

Kristen, eliminating junk food from schools has been pending for years in the form of legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. Still no action on that yet. We’ll see whether Congress will find the money and political will to make school lunch universally free.

]]> By: FoodRenegade http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/21/2341/comment-page-1/#comment-3198 FoodRenegade Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:21 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2341#comment-3198 Marion Nestle made a couple good suggestions, too, to help fund an overhaul of the program in which EVERY STUDENT is entitled to a good lunch. She proposed: 1)eliminating the a-la-carte & junk food competition so that more real lunches would be served & the schools have more money to work with, and 2)eliminating the income requirements, thereby doing away with billions of budgetary dollars spent on propping up the bureaucracy that's in place to ensure the income requirements are met and kids don't "cheat" the system. Marion Nestle made a couple good suggestions, too, to help fund an overhaul of the program in which EVERY STUDENT is entitled to a good lunch. She proposed: 1)eliminating the a-la-carte & junk food competition so that more real lunches would be served & the schools have more money to work with, and 2)eliminating the income requirements, thereby doing away with billions of budgetary dollars spent on propping up the bureaucracy that’s in place to ensure the income requirements are met and kids don’t “cheat” the system.

]]> By: megwolff http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/21/2341/comment-page-1/#comment-3193 megwolff Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:17:31 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2341#comment-3193 Great post. Thanks, Ed. Great post. Thanks, Ed.

]]> By: kimsikes http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/08/21/2341/comment-page-1/#comment-3192 kimsikes Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:00:20 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=2341#comment-3192 Ed, count me in. My mom has been "cafeteria lady" at an intermediate school in Fairfax County for over a couple decades now. She said when I went to school there (20 years ago) they used to cook everything. Now she has no idea what she's serving to the kids and they got rid of most of their kitchen equipment. I can't convince her to change her own diet to local/organic but when I talk about the food she feeds the kids at her school she gets pissed! I see things going downhill for us since it seems the crappy food mentality extends way beyond the food. It's what we feed our brains, how we spend our time, how we entertain ourselves, how we have relationships with the people around us. It all seems to be cheap, dirty and empty. So, if you're proposing we do something about the school lunch program ... yes, count me in! Ed, count me in.

My mom has been “cafeteria lady” at an intermediate school in Fairfax County for over a couple decades now. She said when I went to school there (20 years ago) they used to cook everything. Now she has no idea what she’s serving to the kids and they got rid of most of their kitchen equipment. I can’t convince her to change her own diet to local/organic but when I talk about the food she feeds the kids at her school she gets pissed!

I see things going downhill for us since it seems the crappy food mentality extends way beyond the food. It’s what we feed our brains, how we spend our time, how we entertain ourselves, how we have relationships with the people around us. It all seems to be cheap, dirty and empty.

So, if you’re proposing we do something about the school lunch program … yes, count me in!

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