Yuck! Typical American school lunch. The sorry state of the 4 food groups.
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What's a renegade to do?
A renegade can be more than Lorenzo Lamas on a second tier television network. Oh yes, I spent many an after-school hour lapping up that show in the 1990s. Lamas played Reno Raines, a former cop who testified against his brethren and became a bounty hunter after being shunned by the law.
Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a Renegade.
Yes, that's one form of renegade. A very tasty form for some of us ladies.
There's also that new media solipsistic version cueing up dreams of green by promoting unconventional behavior in the workplace. Filed under successful entrepreneur.
Getting to my point here.
I am working now with The Renegade Lunch Lady. No, not an oxymoron to have a renegade + lunch lady. Have you seen what we feed our kids in schools? Ever notice that most of it doesn't look like food and if our great grandparents were brought back to life and served it, they might be afraid to eat it?
I'm not knocking schools. I'm not complaining about the really incredible and ridiculously hard working folks who bring lunch to the school cafeteria. They are working the best they can under some fairly horrendous policies set forth by our government. Some of them are finding ways to change the equation: bringing farm to school programs to schools and even districts, working on a city and national level to advocate for better policies, joining together to increase collective buying power in large school districts, to name a few innovations. Food service companies are also doing their part to increase the amount of healthful food available. But the problem persists because our major decision-maker, the US Government, hasn't prioritized the health of our kids, nor has it made the connection between food, health and nutrition.
Back to the renegade theme.
Whole Foods Market has just launched a partnership with The Renegade Lunch Lady to support a game-changing project that will provide FOR FREE all the tools, information, education, and community needed to give our budding School Food Revolution some legs.
Check it out and see what renegade looks like in 2009. Maybe you are one, too?
