Eat Ins Scheduled for 7 September's National Day of Action, Slow Food USA

From Slow Food USA via Twitter

'On Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2009, people across America will gather for public potlucks that send a clear message to Congress: It's time to provide our children with real food at school. This map shows where Eat-Ins are scheduled to take place. Yellow pins are Slow Food chapters; blue pins are new organizers who've signed up.'

'The Child Nutrition Act is a federal law that comes up for reauthorization in Congress every four to five years. It governs the National School Lunch Program, which sets the standard for the food that more than 30 million children eat every school day.

In the last few decades, as school budgets have been cut, our nation's schools have struggled to serve children the real food they need.

The deadline for reauthorizing the current Child Nutrition Act is September 2009. Unless we speak up this summer, “business as usual” on Capitol Hill will let Congress pass a Child Nutrition Act that continues to fail our children.'