| Aug 13, 2014 | Food / FarmingYou can lead a kid to vegetables, but you can’t make her eat. Especially if the food doesn’t taste good. That’s what the government found out in the wake of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. I was active in advocating for school lunch reform...
| Apr 1, 2014 | Food / FarmingAh, progress. In the 2012 elections, Republicans cast themselves as budget-balancers by promising to whack welfare programs for the poor, snarling that such people are “takers” and “moochers.” Such vindictive sourness didn’t play too well...
| Aug 28, 2013 | Food / Farming“It tastes like…” my six-year-old friend paused to search for a word disgusting enough to describe school lunch. “Throw up,” she concluded. Her sister, a fifth grader, nodded in agreement. Really? I’ve heard fantastic reviews of the...
| Jun 4, 2012 | Food / FarmingSummertime can be a carefree, relaxing season filled with cookouts, backyard picnics, and trips to the ice cream truck. But for too many kids, summer vacation means having an empty stomach. Child hunger and food insecurity often peak during the long, hot break. At a...
| Nov 28, 2011 | Food / FarmingHow small-minded is Congress? How tangled-up in a right-wing ideological knot is it? How subservient to corporate lobbyists is it? The answers to these three questions are: pizza, tomato paste, and spuds. At a time when doctors and nutritionists are sounding a...
