Good Food for All

Daily Digest: Federal Budget for School Lunch, Michael Pollan on Oprah, Aquaponics in Chicago

President Obama's budget proposal for WIC and school lunches is receiving mixed reviews from school lunch reform advocates.  Food Research and Action Center has a 2011 budget breakdown.  More info here. 

On Feb. 8, Farm to School, Roots of Change and other organizations will launch a national campaign to ask Congress for $1 more per school lunch. 

The February issue of Mindful Metropolis features an article on organic aquaponics in Chicago. 

An anonymous Illinois teacher who is eating school lunch every day in 2010 has a blog, which is gaining more attention across the country. 

Oprah hosted Michael Pollan as her guest last week to discuss his new book, Food Rules.  Watch the video here. 

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Daily Digest: Tomato Blight, Time for Lunch, and Questions about 'Organic'

Tomato Blight has already affected half a dozen states along the East Coast.  

Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families are five 1-hr audio documentaries on planting, nurturing, stewardship, harvesting, and succession. 

Will the White House Garden change food policy? Salon.com weighs in. 

It's Time for Lunch! Time for Lunch is a campaign of Slow Food USA, to call on Congress to pass a Child Nutrition Act 'that gives schools the resources to serve real food for lunch.'  Read more here. 

NPR reports there is more debate over Food, Inc. 

The Federal Organic label is being questioned. 

Grass-fed beef, Soda taxes, and a PBS segment on "Food, Inc."

The USDA Agricultural Research Service  says grass-fed beef may be the best prescription for farmers facing the effects of climate change. 

The New York Times endorses the idea of a soda tax.

While there are no Food, Inc. screenings planned for Chicago yet, PBS NOW features a segment with director Robert Kenner.