"Time for Lunch"
A national campaign to get real food into school lunch programs

What:
National Eat-In & Day of Action
More than 200 chapters across the nation will join us in inviting civic groups, educators, PTA groups, clergy, school garden and urban agriculture advocates, growers, local officials and legislators to sit down together to have this important conversation about getting real food into school lunch programs.

We are spreading the word to our friends, families and neighbors too.

This will be a moment to send a clear message to our nation's leaders that our children deserve better school lunches.

When: Monday, September 7, 1-4 pm

Where: Mellon Park

COMMUNAL PICNIC: Bring a chair, a potluck dish to share, your plate, implements and a cloth. We will have some tables. More folding tables are welcome.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.

This is a National Eat-in and Day of Action:

That means that we also want to make a dramatic statement, so our campaign gets noticed.

We will all use our cell phones to call legislators during the event, phone numbers and talking points provided. All will be asked to sign the Slow Food petition: I believe that change can't wait: It's time to provide America's children with REAL FOOD at school.

Online signup: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/campaign/time_for_lunch/

The need for real school food has never been greater. Today, one in four children is overweight or obese, and one in three will develop diabetes in his or her lifetime. In the face of this crisis, our schools are financially struggling to feed children anything but the overly processed fast food that endangers their health. For many children, school lunch is their only guaranteed meal of the day. Right now, those children are forced to choose between going hungry and being unhealthy.

We can do better.

Read more about
Slow Food's Time for Lunch Policy Platform