GM Free SchoolsIRT Support for Your Local GM-Free Schools Effort
NOTE: The organizations mentioned below (with the exception of
Slow Food) have not yet taken a position against GM foods, but
they share common concerns about improving nutrition standards,
agricultural sustainability and increasing federal funding for
child nutrition, in particular through school meals. A few
school districts have successfully passed ordinances to improve
school meals and even serve organic meals—for example, Berkeley
and Santa Cruz, CA—thanks to the work of food pioneers such as
Chef Alice Waters and Ann Cooper (see below), and other activist
organizations. One of the main difficulties so far in improving
the food quality in schools has been the extremely low funding
allocation for school meals which induced many schools to rely
on the cheap processed foods that are fueling the obesity
epidemic. Until now, schools received $2.68 for each lunch
served – of which only about $1 goes towards ingredients. With
the recent passage by