Real Food at School?
Richmond Shreve
Greasy potato pom-poms, mystery meat, and overprocessed,starchy, salty foods are common in school lunch programs across the US. Labor Day thousands of groups across the nation staged events that were somewhere between a pot-luck picnic and a protest to launch a campaign to improve the federally subsidized school lunch programs.
Pictures are better than words, so click here to see photos and video of the event in my town. Then take a look at the issue nationally by clicking here.
"Slow food" (as distinct from fast food) now there's a concept one can get his or her teeth into.
Author's Bio: Richmond Shreve is a Senior Editor at OEN, a writer, and an author of short stories. His "Lost River Anthology" (amazon.com) was released in March 2009. His "Instructor Candidate Manual" (lulu.com) is widely used by motorsport clubs to train instructors of high performance driving. "These days [he] calls himself a 'generalist.' He has excelled in several careers and has many areas of expertise. A retired business owner and marketing executive, he is also an electronics technician, a high pressure boiler operator, a published author, a website designer, a strategic planner, a Photo Shop professional, a race track driving instructor, a radio station engineer, a business consultant, and an active volunteer firefighter. He works from his home in Cape May Point, NJ." -- by Marguerite Chandler (his spouse)
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