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Mar 2, 2005
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." --J. R. R. Tolkien
Food Fight
Thanks to the ubiquitousness of junk food, obesity has become one of the top health problems in the US with one in six children considered overweight. Alice Waters, the visionary California chef of Chez Panisse, wants to nip obsesity in the bud. She founded the Edible Schoolyard, which transformed an unused tarmac in a Berkeley middle-school into a garden from which kids can grow and cook food while learning the value of environmental stewardship. With this Berkeley pilot-project as a model, Waters is aiming to revolutionize the American school cafeteria by replacing Skittles and Big Macs with locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables.
BE THE CHANGE
Learn more about Rethinking School Lunch, an initiative that is part of a national effort change school lunch policies, and become an advocate for children's nutritional health and education. More ...
