QUOTES
"I
believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to
know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community
around them."
Change
the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum
and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food
and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to
our lives.
Because
only slow food can teach us the things that really matter — care, beauty, concentration,
discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if
we take the time to think about what we’re eating.
"Teaching
kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the
center of an education."
In
fact, industrial farming and fast food operate hand in glove, very much like a
vast conspiracy. Together they suppress variety, limit our choices, and manipulate
our desires by getting us hooked on sugar and salt.
What
we are calling for is a revolution in public education --- a real Delicious Revolution.
When the hearts and minds of our children are captured by a school lunch curriculum,
enriched with experience in the garden, sustainability will become the lens through
which they see the world.
