Additionally we have identified systems change strategies that include new healthier cycle menus, training opportunities for food service staff, integrated food education, community engagement opportunities, capacity building for local agriculture..........................
Lately I have been thinking that we have arrived at a tipping point that I call, Stepping Up or Stepping Back. Allow me to say a bit more about that.
Given everything we know about the quality and content of food being offered in public schools, are we to some degree complicit by allowing this to continue. In essence are we enabling an ongoing health and cultural crisis by not Stepping Up and doing what we know is right and what is certainly in the best interest of the future health and vitality of children, families and communities?
EFP has studied and researched this issue from almost every angle; classroom, community, regulatory, food sourcing, budgetary, operations, education, labor, culture and history and more.
There are solutions and we can no longer afford to allow embedded behaviors and outdated approaches to prevail. Its time for a change, it's time to Step Up. What do you think?
