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Appetite for a Change
A Campaign for Healthy Schools --- OCA's nationwide campaign working to make school food programs healthy and sustainable, to integrate organic foods and non-toxic products into our schools, creating a safer and healthier environment for our children to learn and grow.
The Four Appetite for a Change Goals:

KICK junk foods and junk food ads out of our schools.

START converting school lunches to healthier menus, using organic and transition to organic ingredients (no pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, irradiation or genetically engineered ingredients). Offer vegetarian options.

STOP spraying toxic pesticides on school grounds and in buildings and convert to integrated pest management practices.

TEACH students about healthy food choices and sustainable agriculture through school garden projects and curriculum materials.

Download SOS Materials:

Please circulate our leaflet:
Black & White PDF version -- Color PDF version

Petition to support healthier food in school (PDF)

Fact Sheet: Americans are turning to organic food, and for good reason

A curriculum directory order form for grades K-12 -(PDF)

Send a fax to the USDA:

Tell them you do not think school lunches should be irradiated.(Public Citizen site)

News 2003

10 Ways to Stop Corporate Commercialization of Schools

Many more articles:
SOS Campaign Article Archive		   genetically engineered food,supermarket campaign,ge food,gmo,genetically modified organism,organic,fair trade,organic consumers association
Tell the USDA what you think about irradiated meat in the National School Lunch Program!

Say No to Irradiated Meat for Minnnesota School Children!

OCA's Web Forum
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2004

7/5 - Sustainable Foods & Farms: Changing Minds As Well As Eating Habits

7/5 - Organic School Lunch Program Expands in California

6/28 - Italian Law Calls for All Organic Foods in Nation's Schools

6/25 - Senate Votes Against Forcefeeding Irradiated Meat to Schoolchildren

6/24 - Stop Deadly Corporate Marketing to Children

6/17 - USDA Classifies Frozen Fries as "Fresh Vegetables"

6/10 - Coming soon: a rare opportunity to prod schools to serve more healthy food to children ­ nationwide

6/9 - Tell Congress to Get Our Schools Out of the Junk Foods Business

6/4 - Junk Food Wreaking Havoc on Kids

5/20 - Campaign Against Obesity & Junk Foods Moves Forward

5/2 - San Francisco Bans Irradiated Food in Schools!

3/24 - How Greedy Corporations Are Making American Children Fat

3/19 - Schools Across U.S. Target Vending Machines in Obesity Controversy

2/9 - FDA Not Protecting Children from Mercury in Fish

1/23 - Too Much Sugar

1/19 - Canada Begins to Get Soda Pop out of Schools

1/12 - Italy Leads in Organic Catering for Schools

1/6 - Pediatricians Say Ban Sodas in Schools

 
 
           

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