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Making positive changes in the school food environment webcast

Everett_raspberry We know you want change in our school food system; I'm only one of millions of moms desperate to improve its current state, although admittedly I'm extra loud and whiny about it. Portland is even one of the lucky ones; our Farm to School program is a model nationwide. Now if we could only expand it to more than one ingredient a month...

But you've got to start somewhere. As part of Ecotrust's Western Regional Assembly today, Rebecca Gerendasy of the Cooking Up a Story video project will be interviewing Deb Eschmeyer from the Farm to School Network, "about farm to school, policies being made toward this, how parents are getting involved, what needs to be done toward bringing fresh, clean, good food to our kids in school..." Her interview ~~will be broadcast on Ustream starting at 12:15, and she'll be taking questions from the online audience. If you have a webcam and a microphone, you can participate~~. The recorded video is after the jump.

In: Elementary Schools, Food and Drink

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When the administrators of our school asked what was the single greatest threat to the security of our students, I was the lame one who said that the swill we serve up at lunch.

Can you see their eyes rolling?

But ours, the largest portland high school, served that USDA garbage that was high in everything it should be low in (sodium, fats) and low in everything that should have been there (read: anything fresh)

I thought that they were rolling their eyes because every school had to deal with that garbage.

But, I was wrong. When I went to work down in Canby, not only did they have food that, while not always a model of health, set the bar much higher for vegetables and healthy options (sub sandwiches and salad bar figuring prominently).

I would jump on any bandwagon that improved on the garbage that schools are feeding kids. I know it isn't entirely the schools faults, free and reduced lunch programs probably do make it necessary to keep the options inexpensive.

Posted by: HB | September 20, 2008 at 04:46 PM

Is there any way to watch this now that it's not live???

Posted by: LTF | September 20, 2008 at 05:22 PM

LTF: Here's the link. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/723892 I'll update the imbed in the blog post. thanks!

Posted by: sarah gilbert | September 21, 2008 at 11:47 AM

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