policy | bettina neuefeind

Do you wonder how to get better food into public schools? Then mark your calendar and head to Harvard University on June 10th for Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food. This day-long conference of panels, presentations, breakout groups and discussions features exciting actors on the school food stage from across the country. Ann Cooper, Renegade Lunch Lady, will set the tone with her keynote address. Visit the registration webpage to check out the lineup and to reserve your spot.

The Food Law and Policy Clinic, a teaching clinic of Harvard Law School, is co-sponsoring this conference with Let’s Talk About Food, the Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, and Harvard University Dining Service’s Food Literacy Project. FLPC Director Emily Broad Leib and I will speak about the role policy change plays in school food at the local, state, and federal level.

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Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food

June 10, 2015, 8:30am-5:00pm, Cambridge, MA

Our first lady touts it; our federal legislation mandates it; our parents champion it; our foodservice professionals strive to deliver it: healthy, fresh food for students in public schools. How can it be so controversial if everyone agrees? Join this first annual conference to understand the current state of childhood nutrition, the nuances of the federal law, the economic, logistical and technical constraints faced by foodservice providers, and creative solutions for improving offerings. This one-day education session will help us forge a collective understanding on the role each of us plays as parents, providers and advocates to effect meaningful change!

Who Should Attend: School Nutrition Directors*, Parents, Policy & Wellness Advocates, Officials and Academics in the areas of Law, Nutrition, Public Health and Education (*Conference attendance earns continuing education credits)

Registration Fee: $35; limited scholarships available

Registration & Full Conference Agenda: https://healthyfoodhungryminds.eventbrite.com

Featured Speakers & Presenters:

Ann Cooper, The Ann Cooper Foundation
Katie Millet, Massachusetts Office of Nutrition & Health
Eric Rimm, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Emily Broad Leib, Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic
Scott Richardson, Project Bread
Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Revolution Foods
Catherine D’Amato, Greater Boston Food Bank
S. Paul Reville, Harvard Graduate School of Education
and more!

Presented by: Let’s Talk About Food, Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard University Dining Services’ Food Literacy Project

In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Mark Bittman wrote,

“The budget for food education in the United States pales compared with the marketing budget for junk food, and much of that education is either unconvincing or ignored in the face of the barrage of “fun to eat” ads for the food that is worst for us. (These three charts, gathered in one place by Tom Philpott, pretty much tell the story.) There is, as I’ve complained before, no concerted effort to teach people how to cook, which cannot happen without simultaneously teaching people how to shop for real food.
. . .
In the long run, what’s needed is not a Farm Bill — that tangled mess that’s been stalled in Congress since its expiration in 2012 — but a national food and health policy, one that sets goals first for healthful eating and only then determines how best to produce the food that will allow us to meet those goals. It doesn’t make sense to tell people to eat vegetables and then produce junk; that leads only to bad health in the face of evident abundance. What’s so great about that?”

bettina neuefeind

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Do you wonder how to get better food into public schools?

Abundance Doesn’t Mean Health