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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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Slow Food Steers Aspiring Mechanic from Cars to Cooking

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Jenny Kessler, Harvest Time, Slow Food NYC, Automotive High School, Time for Lunch, Eat-In, Slow Food Usa, Real Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Cars and fast food are partners in crime when it comes to undermining America's health. But our landscape is changing; Automotive High School in Brooklyn is now part of Slow Food NYC's Harvest Time program.

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Getting Serious About School Lunch: Eat-Ins Sweep The Nation This Labor Day

Kurt Friese | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food Usa, Eat-Ins, Healthy Food in Schools, Time-for-Lunch-Campaign, Time for Lunch, Child Nutrition Act, Green News
Kurt Friese

Think of an Eat-In as the marriage of the traditional picnic to the classic activism of the 1960's Sit-Ins; this is old-fashioned activism with a hot dish to share.

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Feeding Kids (Real) Food

Wesley Epplin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lynn Peemoeller, Slow Food, School Food FOCUS, School Lunch Talk, Time for Lunch, Child Nutrition Act, Mary Ellen Caron, Eat-In, Slow Food Usa, Slow Food Chicago, Farm to School, Daley Plaza, Josh Viertel, Chicago News
Wesley Epplin

Giving our kids healthy fresh foods at school stands to set an example of how to form lasting eating habits that can truly have a positive impact on their health.

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The School Lunch Revolution: Get Ready

Grist | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Time for Lunch Campaign, Slow Food Usa, Food, Eat Ins, School Lunches, Time for Lunch, Food Politics, Green News

A recent federal mandate required that every school district write and implement a "Wellness Policy" that addressed, among other things, the epidemic ...

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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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A Rooftop Farm For the Future

Cathy Erway | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Growing Chefs, Ben Flanner, Greenpoint Rooftop Farm, Annie Novak, Urban Farming, Slow Food Usa, Rooftop Farms, Goode Green Nyc, Rooftop Farming, Added Value, Brooklyn Rooftop Farm, Goodegreen, Green News
Cathy Erway

On top of an industrial building overlooking the East River in Brooklyn sits the 6,000 square foot urban farm.

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GOOD Q&A: Erika Lesser, Executive Director of Slow Food USA

GOOD Magazine | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, What Is Slow Food, How to Eat Healthy, Erika Lesser, GOOD Magazine, Organic Food, Slow Food Organization, Slow Food Usa, Healthy Eating Tips, Living News
GOOD Magazine

What does a $20 donation do for Slow Food? A $20 donation helps us identify one more person who gives a damn about good food. In a lot of ways Slow Fo...

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