One day, I’ll find time to write at length about Jamie Oliver but for now, an observation widely shared: when he ran into the food service regulations in his recent US school meal adventures, it was clear he was outgunned in ways he couldn’t fathom. That’s not his fault. School meal regulations in the US are almost deliberately unfathomable. A small legion of food activists and journalists are trying to get to the bottom of it, though – the Time for Lunch campaign is trying to transform school meals, for instance, but two new bits of investigation, across the US and in DC, suggest the scale of the task. The kickback agreements that industrial caterers have with brand suppliers is something that they’ll fight very hard to keep, even if it means that the fresh, local and sustainable produce needed to head off the US obesity epidemic remains off the menu. [Via Jenny Huston]
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Your “in D.C.” link is not working. I think it’s probably this:
http://www.theslowcook.com/2010/07/12/how-corporate-rebates-kickbacks-influence-what-kids-eat-in-d-c-schools/
Is letting people, including children, suffer from malnutrition and poor nutrition (presumably decreasing fertility) more kind than letting the world get so populous that no one gets enough food and the species collapses or suffers from horrible untold famines?
In other words, is “stuffed and starved” more kind then “everyone is healthy and breeding like rabbits; oops suddenly we have too many people and no food and we all need to fight in order to eat and very few people have enough food to survive”?
I don’t see healthy people as a problem. Actually, a healthy educated population has fewer children. If you look at Western society, we have to have immigration for our population to grow! That’s because we’re a healthy, well-educated society and most families will have 2 or fewer children. That’s not growth at all.
Raj put a colon and a space before the URL for the DC story when he posted…the correct link is:
http://betterdcschoolfood.blogspot.com/2010/07/corporate-rebates-million-dollar.html
Many thanks, Patrick – fixed.