Guest guest Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:54:41 -0400 (EDT) " Audrey Hill, Food & Water Watch " <fwwatch Support Farm to Cafeteria! Support Farm to Cafeteria Imagine if school children ate fresh food from local farms, instead of highly processed, prepackaged food that arrives to schools in giant cardboard boxes from across the country. Sound like a utopian fantasy? Well, over 200 schools across the country have " Farm to Cafeteria " programs where kids eat fresh food from nearby farms. These programs are win-win: good for the kids and good for the farmers. To expand these efforts, however, schools need to receive start-up funding for Farm to Cafeteria programs. Please ask your Congress members, as 20 Senators already have, to support Farm to Cafeteria funding. In particular, ask them to support $5 million funding for Section 122 of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004. Congress is in recess, and legislators are in their home offices, until April 23rd. They need to hear from you that Farm to Cafeteria programs are important for children's nutrition and small farmers! Go visit your legislators or phone them! Call 202-224-3121 or visit www.senate.gov and www.house.gov to find your Senator and Representative's information. Want to find out more about Farm to Cafeteria? Read more. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=108130252 & url_num=1 & url=http:\ //www.foodsecurity.org/farm_to_school.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.