Hey everyone - if you get a chance, please check out Ruth Conniff's piece on school hot lunches. We have been talking a lot about children and food lately at Mermaid and I feel like we as a community are on the verge of shifting our thoughts about this very important issue.
It is not enough, we believe, for those of us who can to send our kids to school with nutritious fare and leave the other children in our community to be fed for under $2.75. My kids have had plenty of hot lunch because I was too frazzled and disorganized to get 3 lunches made before the bus showed up. This is our collective life now. It is not out of our reach to make nutritious fresh food available at least some of the time to the children in our schools. Ruth mentions Alice Waters' program through Chez Panisse and also Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch through REAP. These are worth looking up on the internet.
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One of the keys to making things better is to be willing to take a bite out of the problem. It is all well and good to want to solve the the whole bleeping scenario but by that time our kids will be grandparents and we'll be dead.
Some better food not only improves the situation - but if it is linked to a garden, a community and a pinch of education our kids might grow up expecting better out of themselves and their peers.
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