Eat-in a wild success
The reports have been coming in from across the county: the eat ins were a wild success. We had 307 eat-ins in all 50 states with over 20,000 people in attendance. Locally, we have about 50 people show up, including a handful of awesome children. Considering that Elmwood Park is a relatively new (and hidden!) venue for many of us, we had very good attendance.
In addition to sharing food, Dawn Wilson, our Secretary Extraordinaire, gave us the big picture about the Slow Food platform and the entire Time for Lunch campaign. In short, Slow Food USA has four items it would like to see included in the Childhood Nutrition Act this fall:
- Invest $1 more per day per child’s lunch. In this way, our children can have more options for meals.
- Establish strong standards for all food sold at school, including food from vending machines and school fast food.
- Fund grants for innovative Farm to School programs and school gardens.
- Establish financial incentives that encourage schools to buy local food!
If you care about any of this and did not attend on Monday, please take a moment to sign the online petition here.
We ended our formal program with a conversation lead by Maureen Wopperer, a certified health consultant. She brought a four month old fast food meal. It’s one thing to hear about how fast food doesn’t go bad, but quite another to see it first hand!!
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