Slow Food home | About us | Foundation | Editore | Sloweb | Press Office | Store     Sloweb     Home | Sloweek | Voices from the Slow world | Slow Talk | News | Watch & Listen             It’s Time for Lunch 24 Jul 09 - Sloweb Every school day, we have an opportunity to build a strong foundation for our children’s health by serving them real food at school. In the United States, the need 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. That’s why on September 7, 2009, Slow Food USA is asking people in communities all over the United States to sit down to share a meal with their neighbors and kids. This National Day of Action will send a clear message to the U.S. Congress: It's time to provide America's children with real food at school. This fall the Child Nutrition Act, which governs the national school lunch program, is up for renewal. We're asking everyone to speak up and tell our nation's leaders that change can’t wait. We already have nearly 200 Eat-Ins scheduled for that day, in 43 states. We are aiming for all 50. Go to www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch to sign the petition and learn more about our campaign. Later this fall, Slow Food USA is partnering with 350.org (www.350.org) to support their day of global environmental action on October 24, helping to highlight the link between global warming and farming. In Copenhagen, in December, the world’s leaders will meet to finalize a new treaty on climate change. NASA said recently that any amount of carbon in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million was not compatible with “the planet on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.” This “350 day” will take that number and push it into the human heart and mind, resetting the psychological bar for these negotiations. It will feature thousands of actions in almost every country on earth. There will be climbers in the Himalayas, and 350 scuba divers underwater on the Great Barrier Reef. We need to make sure that farmers are involved as well. Slow Food chapters in Spain will make and serve 350 paellas in solar ovens; farmers markets in New England will make pyramids of 350 pumpkins. Anything that’s beautiful and smart will help —especially when you take a picture and upload it to the website that day, joining the thousands of images from across the globe. It will help remind people of the enormous role that shifts in agriculture could play as we try to tackle this most basic problem. Please go to 350.org to register an action for that day. For more information, please visit Slow Food USA's website: www.slowfoodusa.org   News archive from Terramadre News archive from Slowfood Foundation for Biodiversity News archive from University of Gastronomic Sciences News archive from Watch & Listen           News     Bulgaria - 27 Jul 10     Brotherhood Across the Balkans     A communal desire to support small-scale traditional producers in the face of growing threats from regulations and the food industry united food communities from ten countries across the...           News archive     Italy - 22 Jul 10     Dream Canteens     Slow Food buildings a strong network of schools putting good, clean and fair in the canteen ...     Belgium - 16 Jul 10     A Slow Voice in Policy Reform     Slow Food President Carlo Petrini participates in a public debate conference on Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy ...     Denmark - 14 Jul 10     Convivial Danes     Danish convivial join the country’s largest fair of artisan producers to share the Slow Food message ...     Argentina - 08 Jul 10     Flavors from the Andes to Patagonia     Terra Madre Argentina unites producers, cooks, academics and consumers in Buenos Aires ...     Macedonia - 02 Jul 10     Preserving Figs and a Gastronomic Heritage     The Wild Fig Slatko Presidium is created to protect a traditional preserve ...     Croatia - 23 Jun 10     Thank you for Everything, Giani     Farewell to Giani Banich, a friend and dynamic figure in the Slow Food movement ...     Archive previous news   Slow Food 2010 - All rights reserved - P.iva 91008360041 - Powered by Blulab