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Eating CarrotsYoung Lives at Risk
Extensive coverage of childhood obesity, including several articles on school food issues. Washington Post, May 2008

Busy Students Get New Requirement: Lunch
New York Times, May 24, 2008

Parents Rallying Around Better School Lunch
Press-Citizen Report on the efforts of BICSF members! April 29th, 2008.

KWWL report on Iowa City petition

Des Moines Register
Iowa City Parents Push for Organic Food....

Tom Philpott on the School Lunch Crunch: Higher Food Prices Mean Crappier Cafeteria Fare for Kids
Grist Magazine, April 16th, 2008.

Wal-Mart Move 'TIpping Point' for Driving Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market
Giant food retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that its store brand milk in the United States will now come exclusively from cows not treated with artificial growth hormones.

Innovative Reform Necessary in School Lunch Program

by Jennifer New. Iowa City Press-Citizen

OPINION
| March 1, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor: My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)
By JACK HEDIN
Ultimately, it is the consumer who will pay the greatest price if the federal government continues to prevent the local food movement from expanding.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10359.cfm
USDA Recalls 143 Million Pounds of Beef Products Already Consumed by Schoolchildren

WEEK IN REVIEW
| January 27, 2008
The World: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
By MARK BITTMAN
Got vegetables? The days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may be on the way out.

MAGAZINE | August 20, 2006
The School-Lunch Test
By LISA BELKIN
Schools receiving federal lunch subsidies must now create wellness plans. But will replacing Tater Tots with sweet-potato fries really lead to healthier, slimmer children?

Local Carrots with a Side of Red Tape
NYTimes article about the odyssey of getting NY state apples into local schools

The Lunchroom Rebellion
Long article originally published in the New Yorker profiling Ann Cooper's work to change the Berkeley Unified School District's school lunch program. Build a Better Food System Nine Steps from Michael Pollan