Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>]

Jamie Oliver, one of the UK's top chefs had a programme on tv doing 
just that and persuaded the govt to make school meals more 
nutritious.    What happened was that the children stopped having 
school meals and bought fish and chips instead and parents were 
encouraging them to do so.
Pete





> Food Becomes Curriculum in School Lunch Revolution
> By Tom Philpott, Grist Magazine
> Posted on January 30, 2007
>
> Even the most intractable pathology can disappear, sometimes
> relatively quickly. A sign above a water fountain proclaiming "no
> coloreds" would cause any American to flinch today. Just half a
> century ago throughout the South, such abominations formed a banal
> part of the built landscape.
>
> I got to thinking about deep-rooted problems and rapid change a few
> days ago while talking with Ann Cooper, a former star chef who now
> proudly styles herself a "renegade lunch lady."
>
> Cooper is on a mission to transform the nation's abysmal school-lunch
> system. I met her for a cup of coffee in Asheville, N.C., where she
> was promoting her new book Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed
> Our Children. After our conversation, I began to wonder if the idea
> of pumping kids full of flavorless, nutritionally suspect convenience
> food at school might soon become as socially unacceptable as Jim Crow-
> style racism.
>
> entire article at
> http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47283/