A reader named Sheri left a thought-provoking comment on yesterday’s post in which I asked TLT’ers to chime in on a parent’s question about eliminating food in the classroom. Sheri pointed out that many kids come from food insecure households and therefore my desire to eliminate all food from the classroom (articulated most succinctly in [...]
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Happy Monday, TLT’ers! In the past few days, so many interesting news items have piled up in my in-box that I can’t possibly do them justice with individual posts. So here’s a compilation of links you ought to check out: As I mentioned on TLT’s Facebook page late last week, Whole Foods made big news [...]
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As you may know, the Senate is currently debating the next Farm Bill, a critically important piece of legislation which will have far-reaching effects on the way Americans eat. (Take a look at this infographic showing how the 2008 Farm Bill has impacted the American diet — and our health.) I’m leaving to experts the in-depth reporting on this [...]
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As I posted on TLT’s Facebook page last night, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making big headlines this morning with a proposed city ban on most sugary beverages sold in containers larger than 16 ounces. The move would affect restaurants, ball parks, movie theaters, street vendors and other establishments regulated by the city’s health [...]
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Meatingplace.com, a meat industry online publication, reports today that USDA has received and approved voluntary requests from meat purveyors to disclose on product packaging the inclusion of lean, finely textured beef. Meatingplace.com is a members-only site but the relevant excerpt of the post reads as follows: USDA has agreed to approve requests by ground beef product [...]
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Before signing off, I wanted to share a few links related to yesterday’s remarkably high-wattage press conference, arranged by BPI yesterday to defend its lean, finely textured beef, also known as “pink slime:” Helena Bottemiller of Food Safety News has a good recap and analysis, including a description of some heated exchanges between BPI’s panelists and Jim Avila of ABC [...]
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In the past few days there’s been a flurry of posting in the blogosphere about a topic much discussed here on TLT in the past — Big Food’s marketing of junk food to kids. For those new to the issue, Big Food spends almost $2 billion annually on advertising processed food products to children, a viewing [...]
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In the early days of TLT I used to post here as often as four or five times a day (really!) but sometimes a post was little more than my passing on a link to an interesting kid-and-food article. Eventually I regained my sanity and I now use TLT’s Facebook page for that purpose. (By [...]
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A while back I said I had a big question to ask Lunch Tray readers. I’m a few weeks late in posting, but here it is: When we talk about “processed food,” what do we really mean? As someone who writes daily about food and healthful eating, this is a question I think about often. [...]
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Well, the biggest story in the “kid and food” world yesterday was an announcement by McDonald’s USA of its plan to improve the Happy Meal. Rolling out in September, Happy Meals around the country will start to contain a smaller serving of fries (1.1 ounces down from 2.4 ounces) and will now automatically contain a bag of [...]
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