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Williams' promo spot debuted last night during ABC Family's show "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." The 30-second PSA is part of a campaign to urge Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Act to include more vegetarian and vegan options in public school lunches. The CNA is up for reauthorization this year.
According to healthyschoollunches.org (the site that Williams is working with), though some schools are able to offer innovative school lunches that include numerous vegan and vegetarian options, some of which are even environmentally sustainable, many schools only meet the bare minimum nutrition requirements set forth by the CNA.
Apparently the "Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program" is currently only available in participating institutions [PDF], and not mandatory in all public schools.
What do you think? Will Wyntergrace's words be heard?
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8-26-2009 @1:37AM Bernie B said... I've always felt that one of the biggest mistakes was the invention of the school lunch. When I went through school my parents made a bag lunch for me and was far more nutritious and tasty than what a cafeteria throws together.
While I would agree that healthier options should be included in the school lunch, rather than focus on accommodating the handful of Vegans, a better focus would be the removal of junk food and soda machines from school property. Schools get paid by Coke, etc.. for them to park their soda machines where children can get hooked at an early age.
Oh yeah, and I really don't care to hear how a 14 year old child is going to solve my problems with her extensive knowledge of the health foods industry.
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8-26-2009 @10:17AM LinC said... In these days of decreased school funding, do I want schools to offer vegan lunches or to hire more teachers? Nobody is required to buy food at school. Students with special food requirements should bring their own food from home. If school districts have the resources to experiment with their food options that's fine, but it shouldn't be a requirement.
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8-26-2009 @11:30AM JustaTech said... LinC, BernieB, please. "No one is forced to buy school lunch"? What about all the kids for whom school lunch is the only food they'll get in a day? And really, I was packing my own lunch in 5th grade, my parents never had time to make me lunch, and I knew many people who ate utter crap because they didn't have any idea about what should go in their lunch.
School lunches are provided by the lowest bidder, I believe that the current rate is $0.75 per child. It's no wonder that kids are being served crap and would rather eat from a vending machine.
Providing vegetarian options, heck, any fruit, is not only about accommodating a few students. This is about teaching about healthy eating for a lifetime!
I don't know if she'll be successful, but I sure hope someone *tries*. Children deserve at least that.
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8-26-2009 @2:57PM ghanima said... While I doubt that Miss Williams' agenda will go through at this time, I'm glad to see that she's raising awareness for increasing the food choices in cafeterias to include those on restricted diets. I'd be willing to bet that it's just a matter of time before this does become mandatory.
This sort of discussion is just the thing that North Americans need to have to become educated about things like vegetarian/vegan diets, Diabetes, lactose intolerance and a variety of religious dietary restrictions. It can't hurt to develop a better understanding of the various reasons that cause people to eat restricted diets.
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10-11-2009 @9:36PM ashwini said... Here are the healthy lunch box ideas :
http://kidslunchbox.blogspot.com/
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8-28-2010 @4:08AM Ana Maria da Costa Vasconcellos said... I don't believe it's a problem of "students with special requirements", but a problem of education.
I am not vegetarian, but I do not eat meat everyday and I believe children have to learn how to eat in a healthy way, not only based on meats (the easiest way to feel feed).
These things and concepts if learned while children will become part of their behavior and it will be easy to practice and to teach their own children then too.
People keep saying that it is necessary to eat better but not not practice it in this occasions that would be the perfect environment where to plant the seed of healthy nutrition.
Best wishes for Wyntergrace,
Ana Maria da Costa Vasconcellos
http://www.all-about-italian-food.com/mediterranean-diet-foods.html
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