Let’s Talk Honestly About Improving School Food

by Dana Woldow via Beyond Chron

Wed, Aug 12, 2009 7:44AM

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 : As students get ready to head back to their classrooms, it’s time to have an honest conversation about how to improve school food, including what the costs really are. After seven years of working for better food in our public schools, one thing I know for sure is that higher quality food costs more money.

This is why, as Congress prepares to take up re-authorization of the Child Nutrition Act, letter-writing campaigns are being organized by everyone from students at a local high school to the foodies of Slow Food Nation. Everyone is urging Congress to appropriate more money so that our most vulnerable population - low-income children - can get what Slow Food calls “real” food in their school lunch, rather than cheap processed government commodities.

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