The other morning as I was walking my 9-year-old daughter to summer camp at the local recreation center she begged me to stop and buy her something to eat. She was hungry, she complained. Since she had refused the smoothie of fresh berries and homemade yogurt I’d made for her that morning, I wasn’t in […]
My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools. Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture thinks there’s entirely too much brotherly love going on in Philadelphia and says it will shut down a program that for the last 17 years has been offering free lunches to all school children regardless of income. The USDA says it isn’t fair for Philadelphia to be the only city in the […]
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