Community | October 07, 2009 | 3 comments

Grassroots Support Persuades 100,000 to Sign School Lunch Petition

source: http://www.pcrm.org/newsletter/oct09/schoollunch.html

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Business news is bleak. The jobless rate is rising. Toyota’s recalling millions of cars. But in some sectors, businesses have a healthy outlook: They are helping gather signatures for PCRM’s Healthy School Lunch petition.

As Congress prepares to take up the Child Nutrition Act (CNA), which regulates the National School Lunch Program, businesses across the country are joining PCRM’s Healthy School Lunch Revolution. They are trying to improve childhood nutrition news, which is as grim as any economic headline in The Wall Street Journal.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced findings that just one in 10 high school students eat the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. And the percentage of overweight and obese children is now at or above 30 percent in 30 states, according to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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3 comments // Grassroots Support Persuades 100,000 to Sign School Lunch Petition

  • Progresshiv
  • s0uthc0ast
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      s0uthc0ast  

    • Why the hell aren't lazy parents not dragging their asses outta bed and making their kid's lunches?
      Instead they expect me to pay for it?!
      Bullsh-t!
      Disconnect your cable TV, sell the iPod and get a clue!

    • 2 years ago
  • buyingbackthepieces
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      buyingbackthepieces  
    • s0uthc0ast:

      school lunches are considerably cheaper than making them. Besides, I actually pay for the lunches myself I as I do not qualify for the reduced lunch program. Even still it is cheaper.

      Not only that, but there is a social aspect to buying lunches. My child always prefers to buy lunch with her friends than wait at the table for them to join her.

      Instead of being outraged over helping pay for US children eat lunch, I can think of about a billion other ways your tax dollars go to waste.

    • 2 years ago
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