Ann Cooper: Citizen Reporter

Chef Ann Cooper, a 2009 Growing Green Awards finalist, is a self-described renegade lunch lady. She works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students - one school lunch at a time.

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The National School Lunch Program: Time for a Makeover!

I believe that the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is in need of a complete overhaul. The inception of the program was predicated on the fact that there were malnourished children all across the country that couldn’t learn or think. As these same children grew into adulthood, they became a National Security liability, because many of them were too malnourished to become an active part of our armed forces. Along the decades the government has set about to assure that nutritious food was being served and the program came to feed over 30 million children a day with a price tag of over 8.5 billion dollars a year. Another function of the program was promoting large scale agriculture and what resulted was a system at odds, supporting large scale farmers, who often produced food that ...read full post

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