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Bring REAL Food To Our Schools
Join the Slow Food East Bay: Time For Lunch! campaign to urge our national leaders to make REAL FOOD in schools a priority. Come out to the Berkley Eat-In tomorrow. This is a great opportunity for us to show our support for REAL food in schools.
WHERE: Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park 2151 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (between Allston Way and Center Street).
WHEN: Monday 9/7/09 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM.
Bring your family and friends and a meal to share! Learn more about the Slow Food movement and upcoming events at their website.
Here's what's on the lunch menu for all elementary schools in the Alameda Unified School District for Tuesday 9/8: Check out the entire month's menu here.
Bean & Cheese Burrito*
Salsa
Fruit
Milk
* contains no meat
Post your version of healthy school lunches to comments? What are your kids eating for lunch?
The problem we have with this is an overabundance of wheat, diary and sugar products. Farming subsidization and the relations it has with feeding our children is overwhelming. While I would prefer that parents have the time in their day to plan and make their kid's lunch, this is not always possible (or attainable), but that leads into a different set of political problems that I won't get into. If this debate on health care is overwhelming our nation and causing such an uproar, why aren't we looking at the base of the problem: how we are treating/feeding our bodies and the bodies of the future. Building poor habits at an early age and developing these addictions to unfavorable carbohydrates and unbalanced meals is the driving force behind the problem our nation faces. When many of my friends see my dietary habits and the results I get from them many respond with, "I wish I could eat like that but I need ____ in my life." or "I'd need more _____ to feel full." If that be bread, chocolate, sugar, pizza, cereal, the list could go on. This can of attitude we have developed as a culture not only is promoting a lack of self-control and discipline, but a lack of work ethic and willingness to create progress in ones life. The talk of change has been the status quo for quite some time. We need to stop trying to look for progress in things outside of our lives and create that progress within our own reality.
Long live dairy products.
Tom I fully agree. Let's discuss this more over a gallon of milk