Child Nutrition Bill Passes!
After a year and a half of campaigning, we are very happy to see that the House today passed the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act.
It’s this opportunity or we lose it: it’s Time For Lunch
UPDATE: This bill will be voted on Wednesday Dec. 1. Slow Food USA joins hundreds of organizations around the country in writing a letter to Reps. Miller and Kline strongly urging them to pass the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act immediately.
House stalls on child nutrition bill; school lunch on hold
Late Wednesday night the House extended the current Child Nutrition Act to avoid passing the Senate’s inferior version, leaving school lunch advocates flummoxed.
It really really is time for lunch now
The Child Nutrition Act expires on September 30th; let’s reach out to our House Reps and urge them to pass this billand reject any efforts to cut funding to other nutrition programs to do it.
Slow Food Avoyelles helps build an edible schoolyard
Thanks to the work of the faculty and students of Avoyelles Charter Public School, Slow Food Avoyelles, and the wider community, a once-empty space has been transformed into a vibrant and lively Edible Schoolyard.
One step closer to passing the Child Nutrition Act
Just when we all assumed that Congress was too busy to talk child nutrition before their summer break, the Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act late today.