Appetite for a Change
A campaign to reduce children's exposure
to pesticides, toxins, and junk foods
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Four Appetite for a Change Goals
STOP spraying toxic pesticides on school property, playgrounds and in buildings, and convert to integrated pest management practices.
KICK junk foods and junk food ads out of our schools.
START converting school lunches to healthier menus, using locally grown and/or organic and transition to organic ingredients (no pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, irradiation or genetically engineered ingredients). Offer vegetarian options.
TEACH kids about healthy food choices and sustainable agriculture through school garden projects and curriculum materials.
Links
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Child Proofing Our Communities
How to get Organic Milk into Your Kid's School
The Little
Green Schoolhouse
Ecological Sustainability, Children's Environmental
Health and K-12 Education in the US.
Commercial
Alert
Works to prevent the commercial culture from exploiting children
and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental
integrity and democracy.
CSPI
Kid Stuff CHOW
Club!
Gives suggestions for better school foods & nutrition
information geared toward children.
Red Tomato
Connecting farmers and consumers through marketing, trade, and education
Rethinking
School Lunch
Center for Ecoliteracy/ Berkeley Unified
School District Project
Center for
Science in the Public Interest
Nonprofit education and advocacy
organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality
of our food supply and on reducing the carnage caused by alcoholic
beverages.
California
Safe Schools
A nonprofit environmental coalition of over fifty organizations located
in Southern California committed to the health and safety of children,
teachers, staff and community members who reside near school sites.
Center
for Integrated Agricultural Systems
This organization has done
an enormous amount of work regarding institutional markets for sustainable
agricultural products. It s a great site to find out what other people
have gone through to get their products into institutions.
DownloadS
Safe-schools media pack (Word Doc)
US Government Fact Sheet: Children's Pesticide Exposure via Food Products
How to Change School Food Policy: An Organizing Kit
Please circulate our leaflet: Grayscale | Color
Petition to support healthier food in school
Legislation
Materials
- Book: Cooking With Whole Foods
- Video: All Jacked Up: Kids Discover Their Angst is Fueled by What They Eat
Video
The Food Lobby Goes to School
AFC Headlines
- 10/30/12 - Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority?
- 10/28/12 - Can ADHD Drugs Help Children in School?
- 10/23/12 - U.S. States Tighten Vaccine Exemption Requirements
- 10/16/12 - Big Tobacco Lawyers Target Food Industry for False Labeling of "Natural" Ingredients
- 10/16/12 - The Safety and Effectiveness of the HPV Vaccine is Unproven!
- 10/16/12 - BPA Exposure Disrupts Egg Development
- 10/13/12 - Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease
- 10/11/12 - The Modern Food System and the Roots of Obesity
- 10/10/12 - Ten Percent of Children Now Born with Neurological Problems: Pesticides Blamed by Report for Illnesses
- 10/10/12 - 'Organic' Baby Food May Soon Contain Who-Knows-What
- 10/10/12 - Flu Shot Being Forced on Health Workers
- 10/08/12 - If America Only Knew How Much Arsenic Ends Up on the Average Dinner Plate
- 10/07/12 - Climate Change Is Bad News for California Children with Asthma
- 10/01/12 - Gut Bacteria Affects Fat Absorption
- 09/28/12 - Physical Fitness Gives Children Better Academic Performance
- 09/27/12 - Rats Harmed by Great-Grandmothers' Dioxin Exposure, Study Finds
- 09/21/12 - Kids Exposed to Mercury or Lead More Likely to have ADHD Symptoms, Canadian Study Finds
- 09/13/12 - Whole Foods Refuses to Hold Suppliers Accountable for Child Labor, Worker Rights Violations
- 09/13/12 - Saying No To Hershey For Kids This Halloween - GMOs And Prop 37
- 09/10/12 - Can Antibiotic Residues in Non-Organic Food Make You Gain Weight?
- 09/06/12 - Stop the New "Birth-Defect Ready" GMOs!
- 08/31/12 - The Last Antibiotic: Drug Companies Run Out of Weapons Against the Very Same Superbugs They Helped Create
- 08/21/12 - Widely Used Pesticide Seems to Harm Boys' Brains More than Girls'
- 08/21/12 - If I Eat a Gluten-Free Diet, Why Am I Still Having Food Allergy Symptoms?
- 08/20/12 - Lack of Studies, Questionable Safety of Full Body Airport X-Rays Continue to Raise Alarm
- 08/18/12 - War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny by Gary Null
- 08/18/12 - How a Corrupt Dietitians' Group Has Taken Over Nutrition Advice in America
- 08/17/12 - Destroying Children with the Cloak of ADHD - Parents Need to Pay Attention
- 08/16/12 - BPA And Narrowed Arteries: New Study Links Plastics Chemical With Coronary Artery Stenosis
- 08/15/12 - FDA Drug Reviewer: 'One Manager Threatened My Children'
- 08/15/12 - Eli Lilly Admits to more than $200 Million Dollars Worth of Doctor Payoffs
- 08/15/12 - 80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi
- 08/14/12 - Doped-Up Nation: How America Became a Country of Addicts
- 08/13/12 - Study: Junk Food Laws may Help Curb Kids' Obesity
- 08/10/12 - Dietary Fat, Not Glucose, is the Preferred Body Fuel
- 08/10/12 - How Your Water Company May Be Poisoning Your Kids
- 08/08/12 - Another Hatchet Job from Consumer Reports
- 08/07/12 - Breastfeeding Pills' Risky Results
- 08/07/12 - Think Twice Next Time About Touching a Receipt with Your Bare Hands -- Your Unborn Child May Thank You for It
- 08/02/12 - Martial Law Shakes Hands with the US Vaccine Program
- 08/02/12 - Lethal Food System Collapse is Already Happening; New Film Aims to Prevent Malnourishment and Death
- 08/02/12 - Natural Health and Anti-GMO Leader Mercola.com Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary
- 08/02/12 - More Massive Conflict of Interest in Drug Industry
- 07/30/12 - Whooping Cough Spreads Through Pertussis Vaccine Itself
- 07/30/12 - Plant Estrogens in Soy Affects Your Developing Fetus
- 07/27/12 - Heavy Metal Fish: How Mercury Ends Up on Your Plate
- 07/24/12 - Pharmaceutical Drugs Are 62,000 Times Likely to Kill You
- 07/21/12 - Sweet Deception - Artificial Sweetener Risks
- 07/21/12 - Don't Be Overweight, Sleep Better!
- 07/20/12 - FDA to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles; Plan Falls Short of Needed Protections: Scientists
- 07/19/12 - Power-Hungry American Dietetic Association Attempting to Criminalize Nutritional Consulting in all 50 States
- 07/18/12 - FDA to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles; Plan Falls Short of Needed Protections: Scientists
- 07/16/12 - Only 2 Countries Permit Direct to Consumer Drug (DTC) Ads - The US is One of Them
- 07/14/12 - Probiotics and Fermented Foods for a Healthy Immune System
- 07/12/12 - Scientific Fraud Prevalent among Science-Based Medicines