Obama Brings Up a New Side of School Lunch: Student Taste
President Obama has been talking about school lunch a lot lately, but last week he touched on a new side of the issue. In response to a question about healthy eating at a forum on health care, Obama brought up what I see as one of the biggest obstacles to ...
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August 24, 2009
Obama Discusses School Lunch and Mangoes With 11-Year-Old Reporter
Eleven-year-old Damon Weaver loves mangoes and French fries, and if he had his way they would be part of every school lunch. That's what the student reporter from Florida told President Obama during an interview on Thursday. Weaver interviewed Vice President Biden during the 2008 presidential campaign and has been ...
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August 13, 2009
PCRM’s Controversial School Lunch Campaign
The newest controversy in school lunch centers around a new ad campaign by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine. The Washington DC nonprofit has been advocating vegetarian school lunch options and is now drawing fire — from bloggers, activists and the White House too — for targeting the Obama daughters ...
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August 11, 2009
School Lunch for the Obamas (And How We Can Make Public School Meals Just as Good)
Ever wonder what the Obama daughters eat for school lunch? It's a far cry from the packaged burritos and the slices of frozen pizza served in most public school cafeterias. Students at Sidwell Friends eat lemon herb baked chicken, tuscan white bean soup, local arugula and herb salad and shrimp ...
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July 11, 2009
Never Underestimate the Farm Lobby
By Deborah Lehmann — Budgets passed last week in both the House and the Senate left out Obama's proposed subsidy cuts for rich farmers. The President had called for channeling that money instead to improve child nutrition programs, but the farm lobby raised a ruckus and Congress immediately rejected the plan. The ...
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April 9, 2009
A White House Vegetable Garden!
By Deborah Lehmann — Excellent news from the White House front lawn! The New York Times reports that Michelle Obama will break ground tomorrow on the White House's first vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt. The primary goal of the organic garden, which will grow 55 varieties of vegetables, is to educate children about delicious, ...
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March 19, 2009
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