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National School Lunch Program

School Lunches Wouldn't Meet Fast-Food Safety Standards

USA Today | Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Anthony DeBarros | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Fast Food, Burger King, School Lunches, Chicken Safety, Mcdonalds, National School Lunch Program, Meat Safety, Costco, Jack in the Box, School Lunch Meat Safety, Child Nutrition Act, Fast Food Meat Safety, Kfc, Agricultural Marketing Service, Beef Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Green News

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality o...

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Good Nutrition Starts at School

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Children's Nutrition, One-Tray, Child Nutrition Act, School Lunches, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Only 2% of children get enough fruits and vegetables to meet the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations. An entire generation is missing out on the pleasures of home-cooked meals made with freshly harvested foods.

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Feed Your Children Well

Dan Imhoff | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slow Food Usa, National School Lunch Program, Childhood Nutrition, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Childhood Nutrition Act, School Lunches, Politics News
Dan Imhoff

The cheap calorie delivery system -- funded for the past few decades through both the Farm Bill and the Child Nutrition Act -- has become a key player in the Supersizing of our kids.

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Minestrone, and Three Other Things That Will Save American School Lunch

Deborah Lehmann | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Tiverton, Slow Food Usa, Slow Food, Usda, Eat-In, School Lunches, Green News
Deborah Lehmann

It's time to bring the school lunch program back to its roots. This year's child nutrition reauthorization provides an enormous opportunity to overhaul school food and teach students healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.

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Cargill, The School Lunch Program And The Latest Beef Recall

Grist | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Cargill, Beef Recall, Food, Salmonella, Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella, Food Politics, Green News

As I reported last week, a large-scale California beef-packing plant owned by Cargill churned out, packaged up, and distributed widely some 830,000 po...

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Meatless Monday: Reforming School Lunches

Ellen Kanner | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Slow Food Usa, Child Nutrition Act, Alice Waters, Dr. Arthur Agatston, South Beach Diet, Time for Lunch, Food Politics, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Remember school lunch? Mystery meatloaf? Slimy spaghetti? Vegetables so gray and overcooked it was impossible to imagine they started life fresh? ...

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It's Time to Change School Lunch

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slow Food Usa, National School Lunch Program, Michelle Obama, Local Food, White House Garden, Child-Nutrition-Act, President Obama, Eat-In, Politics News
Jerusha Klemperer

The National School Lunch Program provides a meal to 30 million children every school day. Right now it is a sad mirror of the broken food system outside the school walls.

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Twitter Co-Founder Lobbies For Vegetarian School Lunches (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Twitter, Twitter Founder, Twitter Biz Stone, Biz Stone School Lunch, Biz Stone, School Lunches, Politics News

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has taken up a cause that requires a few more than 140 characters to explain. The microblogging exec is lobbying Congress...

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Agribiz Biostitute Declares Fresh Healthy Food A Menace

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Organic Farming, Alice Waters, Henry I. MIller, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Welcome to another steaming poo-poo platter of Agribriz propaganda served up by a biostitute whose foundation is fossil-fueled by Archer Daniels Midland, Exxon, Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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Serving Sickness to School Kids

Michael Markarian | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Salmonella, Usda, Animals, E. Coli, School Lunches, Downer Cows, Agriculture, Food Production, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Lax agency enforcement of humane slaughter rules continues to allow unacceptable abuse of animals and food safety risks.

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Abusive Slaughterhouse Billed $67 Million For Recall

AP | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Meat Recall, Department of Agriculture, National School Lunch Program, Usda, Slaughterhouse, Westland/Hallmark Meat Co, Downer Cows, USDA Policy, Beef Recall, Beef Recall 2008, Business News

CHINO, Calif. — The federal government said Thursday it has billed a California slaughterhouse more than $67 million for expenses associated wit...

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