Healthy School Lunch Working Group

The first meeting of Slow Food San Francisco's School Lunch Working Group brought together 19 parents, teachers, nutritionists, policy experts, medical students and Slow Food members for a conversation about school lunch reform. The group's expertise and enthusiasm was humbling and inspiring. Though school lunch is a challenging and very complex issue, and though we'll be facing serious hurdles in influencing the Child Nutrition Act this year, everyone went home full of hope. We recognize that many dedicated teachers, food directors and administrators have been working tirelessly on this issue for many years, and they've made substantial progress. We now want to back them up by giving voice to a broad citizens' movement to ensure every school in the Bay Area and beyond can serve its students real food.