Feeding the children
By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
As obesity, diabetes, eating disorders and other food-related health problems spiral out of control in the United States, it's worth taking a look at not only what goes into our students' mouths, but also what goes into their minds regarding food.

Feeding Our Future
By Michael Ableman
In the heart of fertile farmland, why does a school serve kids such awful food? Thoughts on the dramatic shift in young people's relationship to food and the land.

Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds
By Barbara Miner
Although it needs improvement, the federal school lunch program fills a need.

Fossil Food: Consuming Our Future
By Tom Starrs
Americans use more than three times as much energy to obtain food than they do to fuel their homes, writes Starrs: "The implications of agricultural energy use for the environment are disturbing."

There's No Business Like Food Business
By Michi Thacker
Students discover that food corporations keep secrets, and ask "why?"

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