(A little chuckle from across the room.) ‘Sorry. Every time I read this, it makes me think of animals on a farm. I just think it’s a funny name.’ Indeed it is. But maybe not so comical as unsettling. The ‘name’ in question is ‘school feeding’, as in the School Feeding [...]
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New Kevin Morgan essay on school food
Kevin Morgan has just published a short essay in the Education Journal, ‘Let them eat pickles: How local authority cuts could kill the school dinner revolution’. While school food, he says, is ‘the litmus test of a society’s commitment to social justice, public health, and sustainable development’, the results of that test don’t have much [...]
2011 School Meals Challenge
A few years ago I listed to an interview with U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan about his experience tackling the 2007 Congressional Food Stamp Challenge. He and four other representatives pledged to eat for a week on $21, the average ‘food stamp’ budget at the time. They did – and in the process they drew a [...]
CSI: Policy Unit, NYC
Imagine you’re a kid living in New York City. How would you eat? The answer is a big ‘it depends’. You might eat quite well – if your mom and dad are among New York’s growing population of foodistas. They might pick up their beans and greens at a farmers market – there are over [...]
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