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		<title>Boot Camps: Really Cooking School Food!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boot Camps: The Perfect Summer School for School Food Service Staff I’m just back from a family vacation and my nephews were very excited about their respective summer camps.  Back at work we’re beginning to schedule two weeks of training for our Sous Chefs and Production Cooks.  As I catch up on school food news, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer &#8211; Agriculture &amp; BP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Precautionary Principal and the Tale of Two Disasters: the BP Spill and Cancer I spent the weekend with a good friend who has cancer and in the next few weeks I’ll go to visit another.  Both 50-something women who eat well, get lots of exercise, take care of themselves, have work they love, spouses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lessons from Berkeley: The Truth About Vegetables&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 17th, 2010 Might as well say it straight up: Kids don’t like vegetables. At least most kids don’t like most vegetables most of the time. That’s the ultimate lesson I draw after spending weeks in school kitchens from Washington, D.C., to Berkeley, CA. And that certainly challenges the idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook Food from Scratch: Epilogue&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 15th, 2010 Me, in hair net, weighing pasta After discovering earlier this year that the “fresh cooked” meals being served in D.C. schools were actually industrially-processed convenience food, I went looking for a school district that was really making food from scratch. I turned to Ann Cooper, the “renegade lunch lady” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook from Scratch: Hold the Beans, Please&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 14th, 2010 After spending hours sorting chicken pieces my first day on the job in the Berkeley school system’s central kitchen, I got a break. “How would you like to serve the kids at lunch?” asked Joan Gallagher, the sous chef in charge of kitchen production. “It’s the most exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Do One Thing For Our Children’s Health: And Please, No More Talking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just Do One Thing For Our Children’s Health And Please, oh Please, No More Talking! Today The President’s Task Force on Childhood Obesity released its report and action plan to tackle childhood obesity.  The report addresses five main strategies: early childhood, empowering parents and caregivers, healthy food in schools, access to health, affordable food, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: How Breakfast Pays for Lunch&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 13th, 2010 Around 8:30 each morning, students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, CA, cross an asphalt playground behind the main school building and begin drifting into a cafeteria and kitchen complex known as the “dining commons” to pick up breakfast. They head for a set of rolling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: Chefs Rule&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 12th, 2010 Executive chef Bonnie Christensen Executive chef Bonnie Christensen was at her desk, holding forth on her troubles with labor unions, when her second-in-command, sous chef Joan Gallagher, walked into the kitchen office cradling a bunch of asparagus freshly picked and just arrived in a 350-pound delivery from Full Belly Farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: Parents Revolt&#8221; By Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 11th, 2010 The Dining Commons, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Eric Weaver’s son is a freshman in college now. But back when he was in kindergarten, Weaver, an appeals attorney in Berkeley, CA, was a parent volunteer who couldn’t help noticing that the kids were sneaking into the teacher’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: An Epic Chicken&#8221; By Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 10th, 2010 http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: Chicken eight days in the making My instructions, simple enough, were spelled out in permanent black marker on the cover of a brown pizza delivery box: Lay six chicken breasts down one side of a parchment-covered baking sheet pan, lay four across, then fill all the spaces in between. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Military Fix School Food?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 01:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Business: the Elephant in the Room of Changing School Food: The Military – Are They the Godzilla? When the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) first came into being a little more than half a century ago, one of the pressing issues of the time was that too many recruits were too malnourished to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA Commencement 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1833</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 21:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA Commencement 2010 Good morning &#8211; I am so honored to be speaking at your graduation. I stand before you today as a chef who graduated over 30 years ago from CIA – but more importantly I stand before you today as a Lunch Lady – yes as a school Lunch Lady – a fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips to Be a Healthy School Food Advocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 22:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we throwing a tantrum about school lunch?  Consider these staggering facts: The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention have stated that out of the children born in the year 2000, one out of every three Caucasians and two out of every three African Americans and Hispanics will contract diabetes in their lifetimes. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Thoughts by Alice Walker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was given to me by a school administrator &#38; I wanted to share it w/ you&#8230;.. We Are the Ones We&#8217;ve Been Waiting For I have deeply loved all of my teachers, except one, a distant cousin, who frequently left us locked out of the school building on very cold days.  When she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Food &amp; Commodity Food &#8211; Our Kids Health in the Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s For School Lunch? High Fat – High Sugar – High Salt! Where Does Most of it Come From? Highly Processed Commodity Food! Like many of you I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s reality TV show and like many, but certainly not all school food advocates, I’ve been applauding his efforts and his ability to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Five Jamie O</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Lunch Lady Wants to “High-Five” Jamie O &#38; Says: Shame on Those in the Movement “Dishing” Him When Jamie’s show began airing I was trekking through Nepal, at peace in a meditative state in the Himalayas.  Upon return I found a tremendous amount of angst, negativity and out-right anger from many of my colleagues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Interview on Seeds &amp; Fruit website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.seedsandfruit.com/2010/04/ann-cooper-chef-school-lunch-activist]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies for School Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln vs Lincoln: What Would Abraham Say About Blanche’s Pennies for School Food? “I believe it will be held a crime in the twentieth century to lure young bodies and minds to school under the pretense of education, only to poison them slowly with bad food.” &#8211; Ellen H. Richards The history of the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Bruske on How School Food Relates to Childrens Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Study: Kids Who Eat School Food Are Fatter Reposted with permission March 16th, 2010 by Ed Bruske · Tales, Wellness, food news, kids Is school food implicated in childhood obesity? A new study from the University of Michigan finds that kids who eat the food served in schools are more likely to be overweight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Lunch Contest: Eat Lunch With Your Kids, Send Us the Pictures, Win Prizes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Lee Zukor&#8217;s article, enter the contest and read his blog: simplygoodandtasty.com. In order to agree on a solution Lee challenges us all to look at the problem or decide if there is one with school lunches. Time to eat a school lunch! Reposted with permission: School Lunch Contest: Eat Lunch With Your Kids, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Against Chicken Nuggets as a School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Case Against Chicken Nuggets as a School Lunch I just came back from presenting at Expo West; the Natural/Organic Show where the Natural/Organic industry presents their products over one million feet of floor space.  Last year when I was at the show, the item that made me crazy was organic gummy bears, this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More $$ for school lunch = healthier kids – my Op Ed in the Washington Post today:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For healthier kids, increase the federal school lunch budget By Ann Cooper Friday, March 5, 2010 Washington Post For all the good first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; initiative will do motivating the private sector, there is hard work ahead as Congress takes up reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act this year. The administration has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It’s Not the Burgers, Mr. President, it’s the Buns&#8221; by Ed Bruske &#8211; Reposted with permission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So if the President, who has two chefs at the White House, isn’t eating a healthy diet, what can we expect of our most at risk children, who are fed a diet high in refined carbs everyday at school.  We know the President’s diet will be “fixed,” but what about our children’s?  Write your elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Article by Jill Richardson:  Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutrition?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1771</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission By Jill Richardson: Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutrition? The Obamas are taking on childhood obesity by tackling problems with the National School Lunch Program. But will their fixes be enough? From Alternet.org February 25, 2010 &#124; Photo Credit: Beau Wade Michelle Obama launched her &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann Cooper asks USDA, “Brother, Can You Spare More Than A Dime?”</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1768</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Agriculture’s budget leaves school kids with paltry 10 cents extra for food BOULDER, Colo. (Feb. 23, 2010) – USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack thought his news today was positive until Chef Ann Cooper did the math.  Earlier today at the National Press Club, Vilsack announced a proposed Obama Administration $1 billion increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Richardson on my visit to San Diego:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission: An Ann Cooper School Lunch Makeover by: Jill Richardson http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3277/an-ann-cooper-school-lunch-makeover Thu Feb 18, 2010 at 23:33:59 PM PST Whole Foods held a competition, promising the winner a school lunch makeover by famed &#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper. As luck would have it, the winner was Albert Einstein Academies, here in San Diego. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen:  http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/29698/]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Bruske on Michelle Obama&#8217;s Obesity Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1748</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re in WashPost “Outlook” Today February 14th, 2010 by Ed Bruske · Tales, kids To make school food healthy, Michelle Obama has a tall order There’s been an impressive convergence of attention on school food recently, with “Healthy Schools” legislation introduced in the D.C. Council, then my series of blog posts, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The School Garden Debate: To Weep or Reap?”</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1744</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Bennett was originally published by the Center for Ecoliteracy. © Copyright 2010 Center for Ecoliteracy. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. For more information, visit www.ecoliteracy.org. I was speaking today with a mom at my sons&#8217; school. She was concerned about a teacher who was doing such a poor job that even his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Dollar For Healthy School Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1742</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Ann Cooper Urges Parents to Demand Healthy Funding Boost for Child Nutrition Act Renegade Lunch Lady Launches Letter-Writing Campaign: One More Dollar for Healthy School Food February 09, 2010 09:48 AM Eastern Time BOULDER, Colo.&#8211;(EON: Enhanced Online News)&#8211;The Child Nutrition Act, slated for reauthorization this year, serves up a rare opportunity for healthier funding of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Budget &amp; School Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1734</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Why Then Doesn’t the President’s Budget Proposal Assure Our Children Even That Much? President Obama’s Budget became public recently and one of the many items in the massive $4.5 trillion expenditures is $1 billion per year for Child Nutrition split between the National School Lunch Program and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacking of School Food Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1733</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Daniela Kunz Lack of financial funds make things very complicated not only for school cafeterias, food decision makers of school districts, principals and ultimately also for parents &#8211; and big Food Inc. takes advantage of this and drives out of business small family farms &#8211; systematically so&#8230;&#8230;.. I have ditched processed foods for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools &amp; Sugar &amp; Our Children</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1731</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just Say No: D.C. Needs to Man Up to Sugar and Flavored Milk in Schools cross posted with permission from the Slow Cook blog http://www.theslowcook.com/2010/02/02/just-say-no-d-c-needs-to-man-up-to-sugar-in-schools/#more-4031 February 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Tales, kids Are schools addicted to high-fructose corn syrup? One of the most disturbing things I saw during the week I spent in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Nutrition Reauthorization = Shovel Ready Stimulus Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1729</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Food: Shovel Ready Stimulus at Its Best! The last few weeks at work in Boulder have been challenging, the Governor’s budget is bleeding and it seems that hundreds of millions of dollars will be cut out of K-12 education over the next two years.  As we all tighten and tighten and yet one more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edible Education: It Really Does Make Sense!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1717</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://lettuceeatkale.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/cultivating-controversy-in-defense-of-an-edible-education/ Cultivating Controversy: In Defense of an Edible Education By Sarah Henry reprinted with permission of the author I was so royally peeved by Caitlin Flanagan’s hatchet job on Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard in her Atlantic piece “Cultivating Failure” that it’s taken me a week to simmer down enough to write about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley School Food a Sustainable Model!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Public School Lunches By Beebo Turman Thursday January 14, 2010 If you care about what your children eat, you will be pleased to hear that Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) serves terrific lunches to all our students! The food is either freshly made or assembled, locally grown or produced, and as organic as possible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Feud Over Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticlepf.aspx?articleid=2247 The Feud Over Food The truth about the school lunch wars. By Stephanie Johns January 2010 Serving meals and snacks at school is fraught with politics and pitfalls. While the battle rages in school cafeterias over menu choices, beverage sales, vending foods, and outright bans on what students can buy or even bring to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Culinary Instructor&#8217;s Thoughts on the Atlantic Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sí se puede” –Cesar Chavez “Yes it can be done” is a phrase born from the story and abuse of immigrant labor in America; the belief in an American “lofty set of ideals” the driver within the phrase, the belief in humanity.  Caitlyn Flanagan’s piece in The Atlantic uses the story of immigrant labor to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Tatum&#8217;s Response to the Atlantic</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1707</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By vtatum In Defense of Gardens Caitlin Flanagan is right: I am an educated, middle-class woman whose school voluntarism is “a locus of (my) fathomless energies.” When I see students whose support system, for a myriad of reasons, has failed them, I want to do something about it. And I am one of the Alice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Response to Atlantic Article!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to thank Ms. Flanagan for having the courage to tell a great story and not be encumbered by the need to be politically correct. My only complaint is that she did not finish her heroic tale of that little Latino boy forced to be a indentured servant for the eco-elite. I was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smarter School Lunches from Yes Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smarter School Lunches &#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper changes the way kids eat. by Ellen Mahoney posted Jan 12, 2010 http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/smarter-school-lunches &#8211; reprinted with permission from Yes Magazine School lunches often get low marks when it comes to flavor and nutrition. But chef, author, and activist Ann Cooper is working hard to change all that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic Attacks School Garden Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost don&#8217;t know how to respond to something that is so absurd, misinformed and misguided! In reading Caitlin Flanagan’s article in the Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/school-yard-garden ), I found myself shaking my head over and over and wondering if anyone involved in writing or editing the article actually worked with kids in gardens or in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Lunch: The Cure for Our Health Care Woes</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1690</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy School Lunch: The Cure for Our Health Care Woes The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country’s most pressing challenges.  The Centers for Disease Control have stated that of the children born in the year 2,000; one out of every three Caucasians and two out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Food for ALL Children</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1688</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The School Lunch Revolution’s New Year’s Resolution! We have one resolution for 2010: that No child will ever be hungry at school and that every child will have access to a healthy/delicious breakfast and lunch every day at school! It just seems like a day doesn’t go by without a print, blog or news story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Got Ethics&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the New Year begins the health care debate moves forward and Child Nutrition Reauthorization is on the horizon.  With ads telling us that Coco Krispies will stave off the flu, Fruit Loops are a Smart Choice, Chocolate Milk is the only source of calcium for kids and most recently that only Agribiz produced pork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing School Food Can Be Hard Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-suburban-school-lunches-jan05,0,6750587.story chicagotribune.com TRIBUNE WATCHDOG School lunches: Push for healthier foods faces barriers Parents find the rules stacked against them as they try to remove entrees such as pancakes By Monica Eng Tribune reporter January 5, 2010 On a frigid February day last year, Michele Hays filed into Evanston Township High School with other concerned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools could learn lessons on food safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.usatoday.com/ Schools could learn lessons on food safety By Elizabeth Weise and Peter Eisler, USA TODAY As Congress and the Obama administration seek new ways to assure the safety of food served to the nation&#8217;s schoolchildren, the most promising paths are no secret. Scientists and food safety experts say there are industries and major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Schools&#8217; War Against Chocolate Milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find this article at: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948865,00.html Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 U.S. Schools&#8217; War Against Chocolate Milk By Gilbert Cruz It would sound like a joke if everyone weren&#8217;t so up in arms about it. Taking a stand against chocolate milk? It&#8217;s like canceling Christmas. What could possibly be wrong with something that brings children such joy? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chocolate Milk Debate Goes On!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School District Says &#8216;No More Chocolate Milk&#8217; Boulder Valley School District Stopped Serving Chocolate Milk This Fall Jennie Castor, 7NEWS Video Journalist BOULDER, Colo. &#8212; Something is very different in the cafeteria of Douglass Elementary School in Boulder County. The chocolate milk is gone. In November, the Boulder Valley School District&#8217;s new director of nutrition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Kass &#8211; my favorite White House Chef!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Kass preps and plugs the winter garden http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-can-eat/sustainable-food/prepping-and-promoting-the-whi.html First, he was profiled in Men&#8217;s Health magazine. Then it was People. Now White House assistant chef Sam Kass has taken the first step to small screen stardom. And by small screen, I mean YouTube. Today, the White House released a video of Kass and Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison WI: Taking on School Food Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whetting the appetite for school lunch reform By SUSAN TROLLER &#124; The Capital Times &#124; stroller@madison.com &#124; Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:45 am Those looking to overhaul Madison’s school lunch program will get a taste of what could be when Beth Collins pays a visit in January. Collins is coming to Madison to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy Groups Fight To Keep Chocolate Milk On Menu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy Groups Fight To Keep Chocolate Milk On Menu by Jeff Brady December 9, 2009 Source: www.npr.org Some school lunchrooms have turned into virtual battlefields in recent years as activists push for more healthful menus. Remember the soda wars and ketchup as a vegetable? The latest fight is over chocolate milk. Critics say it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Today on School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches By Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Anthony DeBarros, USA TODAY In the past three years, the government has provided the nation&#8217;s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn&#8217;t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Richardson on School Lunch from Fresh the Movie Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Lunch – A Sad Reflection of Our Nation’s Screwed Up Priorities Guest Bloggers Posted on December 7, 2009 &#8211; by Lisa Madison By: Jill Richardson Author of: Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do To Fix It Website: www.lavidaloavore.org With the epidemic rise in diet-related chronic illnesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denver Post on Chocolate Milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado schools face cartons of controversy over milk Health cited on each side of schools&#8217; debate over chocolate vs. plain milk By Karen Auge The Denver Post Posted: 11/30/2009 01:00:00 AM MST Updated: 11/30/2009 10:02:22 AM MST Jamison Castillo picks chocolate milk during lunch at Lincoln Elementary. As school districts ban flavored milk, citing the high sugar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robyn O&#8217;Brien: 8 Steps to Save Food!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, &#8220;We need a new model,&#8221; and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool School Food in Telluride</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.telluridewatch.com/printer_friendly/4546697 School Lunch, Made From Scratch, Draws Rave Reviews by Martinique Davis 11.18.09 &#8211; 05:36 pm TELLURIDE – Close to sixty pumpkins came home with the Telluride Intermediate School’s sixth graders following a recent field trip to a pumpkin farm near Delta. Those pumpkins wound up in new Telluride Schools’ chef Jonny Taylor’s kitchen, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School districts ban chocolate milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.9news.com BOULDER &#8211; Ann Cooper is passionate about getting kids to eat and drink healthy. She says that&#8217;s why she has removed all flavored milk from her school district, sticking strictly with the white stuff. &#8220;I really believe we should not be serving chocolate milk in school. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, chocolate milk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:13pm EST By Christopher Doering Source: Reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Schools that serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to pupils should see higher federal support rates than those serving less-healthier meals loaded with high fats and sugar, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMOs &amp; Pesticides</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Reuters Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report by Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY &#8211; The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Ag Committee on School Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Ag Committee held a hearing this morning on opportunities to address hunger and improve health in the reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs. The hearing comes one day after the release of the USDA&#8217;s 2008 report on household food security, which found that almost 15 percent of Americans are food-insecure — the highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Got Ethics&#8221; by Kate Adamick &amp; Ann Cooper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Got Ethics?”  (A Reality Tale) By Kate Adamick &#38; Ann Cooper Not long ago or far away, there was a great and mighty kingdom that was the envy of all other kingdoms in the world.   The kingdom was home to two groups of people, the Big People and the Little People.  The Big People had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Nestle on Chocolate Milk &#8211; Thanks Marion!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your hand for chocolate milk? Thanks to Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale for alerting me to this Associated Press report about the new dairy industry campaign to rescue chocolate milk from the food police.  This, you will not be surprised to hear, is the latest activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Blog on Chocolate Milk!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parent groups have a cow over campaign pushing chocolate milk as &#8216;health food&#8217; Sarah Gilbert Nov 9th 2009 at 6:20PM When it comes to comfort foods, chocolate milk ranks right up there with meatloaf and mac n&#8217; cheese. But a campaign to market the sweetened milk as a healthy choice for kids is leaving parent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG National Dairy Council Pushin Chocolate Milk!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industry pushes chocolate milk in schools Posted on November 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM MILWAUKEE (AP) — The creators of the &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on kids&#8217; minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity advocates none too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Fructose Corn Syrup: Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Consume It!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar for our Children by RACHEL MCFADDEN on OCTOBER 30, 2009 http://www.happygreenbabies.com/food/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-sugar-for-our-children/ Have you seen the high fructose corn syrup commercials?  The commercials tell us, “it is simply corn, and fine in moderation.”  What does moderation mean?  Do you know what you are eating?  What are you feeding your children?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding Kids or Counting Stuff &#8211; Which is More Important?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Question of Values Source: The Lunch Box Blog Wednesday, October 28, 2009 The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that San Francisco schools have had to pick up the entire bill for the school lunch program. Inspectors found &#8220;critical&#8221; program violations in the district and have cut off federal and state funding until the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Real Beef? In Portland Schools!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burger Trials A student taste test in the Portland Public Schools By Lola Milholland Published in MeatPaper &#8211; http://www.meatpaper.com/ &#8211; Issue 9, Fall 2009 Nikole Williams is sweating puddles into the armpits of her blouse. We’re standing in the cafeteria of Benson High School in northeast Portland, Oregon several hours before lunch service. The air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government Making Paperwork MORE Important Than Feeding Hungry Kids!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[S.F. schools&#8217; lunch money cut off; rules broken Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (10-21) 14:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; School lunches have long been the butt of bad jokes featuring mystery meat and plastic-wrapped bean burritos, but in San Francisco, feeding more than 30,000 children every day &#8211; while following strict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are GMOs the Answer: I say NO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger? By The Editors www.nytimes.com Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg A crop of genetically modified canola grows in a field in Lake Bolac, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, Sept. 29, 2009. With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Kass &#8211; Helping Assure Better Food For Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Family Chef, Sam Kass, Cooks up Policy Politico.com (October 23, 2009) Michelle Obama hired Sam Kass to cook for her family. As the White House food initiative coordinator, Sam Kass has a fancy title. But he’s also a chef who turns out healthful dinners for the first family. His job comprises the connection between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Lunches??</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Healthy Are Your Child’s School Meals? Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sample foods during a healthy kids fair at the White House. School lunches have come a long way since the federal government tried to cut costs in the 1980s by classifying ketchup as a vegetable. Nevertheless, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Read: Food Labels &amp; Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL STOCKHOLM — Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product.” “Right now, I don’t know what this means,” said Ms. Bergstrom, a pharmaceutical company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IOM Guidelines &#8211; Could Help Our Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IOM recommends new nutritional requirements for school meal programs Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 &#8211; 10:38 in Mathematics &#38; Economics The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program should adopt a new set of nutrient targets and standards for menu planning, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The recommended targets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Nestle says FDA set to take on Big Biz self-endorsements</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1572</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDA to clean up front-of-package mess The FDA has a new “Dear Industry” letter announcing that it is going to set some rules for those “better-for-you” stickers on the front of junk food packages. Why? “FDA’s intent is to provide standardized, science-based criteria on which FOP [front of package] nutrition labeling must be based.” What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IOM Recommendations Could Help Kids Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Food News The National Scene Source: The Lunch Box Blog Wednesday, October 21, 2009 The current nutrition standards for school meals are in sore need of an overhaul. They haven’t been updated since 1995, and they’re not in line with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA tried for several years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institute of Medicine Study</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1568</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New school-lunch study focuses on better nutrition By PHILIP BRASHER pbrasher@dmreg.com Washington, D.C. — Kids will see more fruits and vegetables in the lunchroom, if the government follows recommendations issued by the National Academy of Sciences. Foods would be less salty, too, under the guidelines developed by a 14-member panel of experts in health, child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Eats: Its Cool to Eat School Food!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 20th, 2009 By Victoria Tatum It was lunchtime at Harbor High School, and the cars were backed up three stories down to the parking lot at the bottom of campus. The thump of the bass resonated from jacked-up trucks and Toyota Forerunners as students tried to break out for a burrito or at Joe’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthier Kid Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sneak This, Swap That: 9 Healthier Kid Foods By Jennifer Gruenemay, Special to Lifescript Published October 16, 2009 Mac &#8216;n’ cheese, hot dogs and French fries can be healthy — with a few clever tweaks. Learn how to turn your kid&#8217;s favorite junk foods into nutritious meals. Plus, find out the top 8 supermarket snacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Obesity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 Ways You&#8217;re Making Your Child Fat By Jennifer Gruenemay, Special to Lifescript Published September 25, 2009 Let’s face it: It’s tough to get kids to eat healthy foods when they’re screaming for fries or ice cream. But more than 12.5 million U.S. children are overweight and face chronic disease ahead. Are you setting your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need a Junk Food Tax!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 13, 2009 Overeating on Pocket Change By RONI CARYN RABIN Is the corner store making some children fat? Low-income children in Philadelphia with about one dollar in pocket money managed to purchase almost 400 calories worth of snack food at convenience stores on the way to and from school, according to study published on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch Money: Washington Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, October 11, 2009 More money needed for nutritious school meals Gabriella Boston &#8220;An apple a day keeps the doctor away,&#8221; the old saying goes. The problem — of course — is Americans in general are just not that into fresh fruit and vegetables. Kids are no different. It doesn&#8217;t help that school lunches often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Pollan&#8217;s Rules to Eat By</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 11, 2009 The Food Issue Rules to Eat By By MICHAEL POLLAN Every trip to the supermarket these days requires us to navigate what has become a truly treacherous food landscape. I mean, what are we to make of a wonder of food science like the new Splenda with fiber? (“The great sweet taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Junk Food in Schools!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More US schools shun sale of &#8216;junk food&#8217; WASHINGTON — Fewer US schools are making soda, candy bars and other types of &#8220;junk food&#8221; available on their premises, according to a study released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. &#8220;The school environment is a key setting for influencing children&#8217;s food choices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Schools &#8212; Healthier Vending</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Schools, New Rules on Snacks for Sale By JENNIFER MEDINA New vending machine contracts expected to be approved on Wednesday could mean less junk food — and less money for schools — as the Education Department tries to promote healthier choices for students. One contract would give exclusive drink machine rights to CC Vending, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The School Lunch Revolution on CNN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rachel Maddow Outs Rick Berman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to watch this!  On a personal level, Berman went after me one time &#8211; when I said really crazy shit like: &#8221;There&#8217;s Mad-Cow in the food supply,&#8221; and &#8220;We should eat less meat.&#8221;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Lunches!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Pack a Healthy Lunchbox Monday , September 28, 2009 By Elena Ferretti ADVERTISEMENT Many parents want to give their children a healthy lunch, but it’s not always so easy. They often don’t know what to buy, don’t have the time to shop for it, and, when they’re trying to get everyone out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco students demanding healthy school lunch YEA!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The social justice issue of our time is assuring that no child is hungry at school and that the food we feed them is healthy and delicious. I totally support these students working toward that end and we all need to help and support them.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>GMO Beets Rejected &#8211; YEA!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets by Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Agencies Fail to Protect Our Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAO audit: Schools slow to get alerts about tainted food By Peter Eisler and Blake Morrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Federal agencies that supply food for 31 million schoolchildren fail to ensure that tainted products are pulled quickly from cafeterias, a federal audit obtained by USA TODAY finds.The delays raise the risk of children being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Food Equals Healthy Children!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools must lead healthy foods effort Ann Cooper and Beth Collins The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country&#8217;s most pressing challenges. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stated that of the children born in the year 2000, 1 out of 3 Caucasians and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Heritage Radio on School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fixing School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading and Writing and Rigatoni: What&#8217;s for Lunch at School? By Jennifer LaRue Huget Tuesday, September 8, 2009 Ann Cooper has been trying to fix school lunches for a decade. &#8220;We need to stop our children from dying from diet-related diseases,&#8221; she says. She cites federal statistics that show a third of children are overweight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lunch Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think outside the box The school lunch box, that is. What will kids eat? By BETH D&#8217;ADDONO Philadelphia Daily News For the Daily News ANABEL SHAFFER Barnett admits that she&#8217;s a picky eater. The eight-year-old won&#8217;t eat meat, and there are only a few vegetables that she enjoys. &#8220;My favorite is mac and cheese,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BVSD Training for the Opening of Schools: check out the news report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Making School Lunch Part of Our Health Care Debate!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools must lead healthy foods effort Ann Cooper, Beth Collins Sunday, August 30, 2009 The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country&#8217;s most pressing challenges. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stated that of the children born in the year 2000, 1 out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids &amp; Eating: How Can We All Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 30, 2009 Parenting and Food: Eat Your Peas. Or Don’t. Whatever. By FRANK BRUNI The boy sneaks food. I’ve seen him. His appetite is formidable, and he knowingly eats more than he should or must, to the steady concern and occasional consternation of his parents. Sometimes they keep count: “How many pretzels?” Sometimes they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Lunch Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not Enough Cooks in the Kitchen: How to Join the Healthy School Cafeteria Revolution Eliza Barclay August 19, 2009 School cafeterias were once the domain of hardworking women (and men) who prepared food by hand with mostly fresh ingredients. But all that changed when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began subsidizing food for school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Food Reform on the Forefront!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. school lunch reform may open opportunity menu Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:38pm EDT By Lisa Baertlein &#8211; Analysis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; School lunch is back on the U.S. policy menu for the first time in decades, thanks to President Barack Obama&#8217;s drive to make school food more nutritious and healthy. Like any reform [...]]]></description>
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