Monday, December 14, 2009

School gruel

Posted by Matthew Schniper on Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM

Change.org posted a story Friday titled "Food Safer at McDonalds than in Schools," which elaborates on an earlier USA Today article centered around an investigation by the paper.

When even KFC says no to "spent hens," and that questionable meat ends up in schools, that's scary.

Sign a petition started by Credo Action asking Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary, to protect children from the USDA's potentially unsafe school lunch program.

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Want to make sure you saw this series about DISC project schools (encouraging agriculture in schools) in Mukono District, Uganda on the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog.

Cultivating a Passion for Agriculture
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingthep…

Conversations With Farmers: Discussing the School Garden with a DISC Project Student
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingthep…

How to Keep Kids ”Down on the Farm”
http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingthep…

I am also currently doing personal blogging with my partner Bernard Pollack on a site called Border Jumpers or http://www.borderjumpers.org

Danielle Nierenberg

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Posted by borderjumpers on 12/16/2009 at 10:08 AM
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