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Dear Slow Food Santa Barbara members,
“To make sure that we give all our kids a good start to their day and to their future, we need to improve the quality and nutrition of the food served in schools. We're approaching the first big opportunity to move this to the top of the agenda with the upcoming reauthorization of the child nutrition programs. In doing so, we can go a long way towards creating a healthier generation for our kids.”
Michelle Obama made those remarks yesterday to the group of fifth-graders from Bancroft Elementary who had just harvested 73 pounds of lettuce and 12 pounds of snap peas from the First Lady’s White House garden.
Click here to watch the video of her speech. Let’s consider her words a call to action.
Slow Food USA is launching its Time for Lunch campaign on Tuesday, June 23.
Last week, the Time for Lunch campaign team began reaching out to chapter leaders across America.
Already more than 50 Eat-Ins are in the works for our National Day of Action on Labor Day, Sept. 7.
That’s an incredible start, and our Santa Barbara chapter needs to stand up and be counted among the agents of change.
The Time for Lunch team at the national office is helping to nationally coordinate and promote the campaign, but we nned to be the people who lead this campaign together. Slow Food USA is a grassroots network of people who believe that good, clean and fair food is the right of everyone. Because all of you are incredible organizers with strong connections in your community, Slow Food USA is uniquely positioned to impact the way our children eat in school and thereby to open the door for them to be healthy, happy and successful in the future.
This year, we can help people across America send a clear, unified message to Congress: It’s time to get real food in schools.
Thank you for all that you already do and thank you in advance for all that you’re going to accomplish with the Time for Lunch campaign.
I fully understand that not eveyone in the group has the time to get actively involved in this, but if you do,
click here and feel free to contact me with questions, suggestions, and especially with offers to help.