Elementary School Lunches
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We’re feeding our school children terrible, unhealthy foods. It needs to change.
Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, “renegade lunch lady” Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school — local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.
Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvDLPu5vh0
Original source: http://www.ted.com
This is the best way to create long term change, kids have open minds to eating healthy and when you start them on the right path it will be a habit they carry through their life. Healthier kids with healthier minds will be stronger and smarter as our next generation. It’s a matter of security and economic success that our children be as healthy as possible. It’s worth the investment to give kids the best food.
I like the idea of eating being an educational aspect as well, every lunch is an opportunity to teach about culture and nutrition and art and responsibility and respect and ethics.
I would love to know if the kids take home what they learn at school – through these lunches. And the gardening classes! Woo!
For at least a century Americans have been indoctrinated by the protein myth – that protein is more important than anything else, that more is better. This is a huge mountain to climb – and it’s great to see people like this who have such enthusiasm and energy to do the job.
“Not only at Fox River Grove Middle School but also in thousands of schools across the country, corporate agribusiness has run amok in the attempt to utilize public education as a place to establish the naturalization of commercial meat and dairy as lifelong eating habits, to generate increased sales, to subsidize the food industry against decreased producer prices, as well as to funnel below-health standards food not fit for public sale. Warwak was correct to demand the riddance of the Dairy Council’s posters as they had in fact already been targeted for removal from approximately 105,000 public schools by the Federal Trade Commission.” Richard Kahn PhD, University of North Dakota
http://freire.mcgill.ca/files/kahn-epistemologiesofignorance.pdf
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