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en españolAppetite for a Change: Children's Environmental Health
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Appetite for a Change Campaign Menu:
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Help the OCA and its allies pressure congress to pass the School Environmental Protection Act (SEPA)
The Bill would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require local educational agencies and schools to implement integrated pest management systems to minimize the use of pesticides in schools and to provide parents, guardians, and employees with notice of the use of pesticides in schools, and for other purposes.
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Appetite for a Change Materials to Download:
Download your local safe-schools media pack here (Word Doc)
Please circulate our leaflet:
Black &
White - pdf
Color - pdf
Petition to support healthier food in school - pdf
US Government Fact Sheet: Children's Pesticide Exposure via Food Products
How to Change School Food Policy: An Organizing Kit
How to get Organic Milk into Your Kid's School
How to apply the precautionary principle to school environments
10 Ways to Stop Corporate Commercialization of Schools
New Documentary All Jacked Up: Kids Discover Their Angst is Fueled by What They Eat
Highly recommended, but parents should be aware, contains a brief but graphic scene of animal slaughter.
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A campaign to reduce children's exposure to pesticides, toxins,
and
junk foods.
The Four Appetite for a Change Goals:
- STOP spraying toxic pesticides on school property, playgrounds and in buildings, and convert to integrated pest management practices.
- KICK junk foods and junk food ads out of our schools.
- START converting school lunches to healthier menus, using locally grown and/or organic and transition to organic ingredients (no pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, irradiation or genetically engineered ingredients). Offer vegetarian options.
- TEACH kids about healthy food choices and sustainable agriculture through school garden projects and curriculum materials.
Recent News
- 05/05/08 - Breast Milk Contains C8, Study Concludes
- 05/02/08 - Common Chemical in Plastic Bottles, BPA Headed For Possible Ban
- 05/02/08 - Force Retailers to Stop Selling Baby Bottles with BPA
- 04/30/08 - Burger King Goes Back on Its Pledge
- 04/23/08 - Playtex to Drop Baby Bottle Chemical
- 04/17/08 - Tom Philpott on the School Lunch Crunch: Higher Food Prices Mean Crappier Cafeteria Fare for Kids
- 04/16/08 - Toxic Chemical in Plastic Bottles & Cans Damaging Children's Brains and Reproductive Organs but Government & Chemical Industry Remain Unconcerned
- 04/16/08 - Food Costs Unravel Nutrition Initiatives
- 04/16/08 - Canada First to Label Bisphenol A as Officially Dangerous
- 04/15/08 - FDA Openly Allowed Marketing of Dangerous Cold Medicines to Infants and Children
- 04/15/08 - Brand Name Organic Infant Formula Ingredients Processed with Toxic Chemical
- 04/14/08 - Increase in Severe Pneumonia in Children May Be Caused By Vaccine
- 04/09/08 - CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up in Government's Face
- 04/09/08 - Government Sued After Approving 4 Pesticides
- 04/08/08 - Ban on Candy in Philadelphia Schools Reduces Obesity Risks by 50%
- 04/08/08 - Survey: 98% Say Parents Should Have Right to Refuse Vaccination of Children
- 04/05/08 - FDA Relies on Bogus Industry Studies to Conclude that Plastics Leaching Carcinogenic Chemicals into Baby Bottles Are Safe
- 04/04/08 - EPA Convenes Panel to Strip Safety Standards That Protect Kids From Cancer-Causing Chemicals
- 04/01/08 - TV Watching--The Top Environmental Hazard for Children
- 03/31/08 - EPA Drops Ball on Danger of Chemicals to Children
- 03/31/08 - Autism's Simmering Controversy
- 03/27/08 - U.S. Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism
- 03/23/08 - FDA Cites Discredited Industry Science in Justifying High Levels of Contaminants in Infant Formula
- 03/11/08 - Do You Know What Toxic Chemicals Lurk in Your Clothing?
- 03/03/08 - Parents Concerned Over Potentially Toxic Baby Bottles
- 03/03/08 - Pioneering Midwife Crusades for Natural Birth
- 03/03/08 - Anxious Parents Go Organic, at a Cost
- 03/01/08 - Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?
- 02/29/08 - School Lunch in the Era of Processed Food: To Buy or Not to Buy?
- 02/23/08 - Diet Soda Now Linked to Heart Disease
- 02/22/08 - Consumer Advocate Group Urges Ban on Junk Food Marketing to Children
- 02/21/08 - Experts Warn of Environmental Contaminants
- 02/18/08 - USDA Recalls 143 Million Pounds of Beef Products Already Consumed by Schoolchildren
- 02/18/08 - For 'EcoMoms', Saving Earth Begins at Home
- 02/15/08 - Officials Call for Safety Probe of School Meat Supply
- 02/12/08 - Lunchmeat from Tortured Cows: School Lessons in a Lunchbox
- 02/11/08 - Element In Lotions May Enter Babies' Skin
- 02/11/08 - Harmful Pesticides Found in Everyday Food Products
- 02/08/08 - Wal-Mart Continues to Sell Chemical-Tainted Baby Bottles
- 02/07/08 - Puberty at the Age of 8
- 02/05/08 - Baby Shampoo Study Raises Chemical Concerns
- 02/05/08 - Study Reveals Pesticides from Foods in Children's Bodies
- 02/02/08 - Breast Milk 'May Be Allergy Key'
- 01/31/08 - Breast Milk 'May Be Allergy Key'
- 01/29/08 - First-Episode Controversy: The Vaccine-Autism Link
- 01/29/08 - First Nations, Canada: Disappearance of Indigenous Baby Boys Tied To Industrial Pollution
- 01/25/08 - Infant Formula Manufacturers, Including Dean Food's Organic Brand Push "Marketing Gimmick" Linked to Serious Illnesses
- 01/23/08 - Environmental Working Group (EWG): Gov't Study Shows Millions of Two-Year Olds Exposed To Dangerous Levels of Rocket Fuel Through Food and Water
- 01/22/08 - Study Children and Cellphones, US Experts Advise
- 01/21/08 - Warning: The Drugs in Your Toothpaste Can Affect Your Health
- 01/21/08 - Chemical Food Additives - Are They Slowly Killing Our Children?
- 01/18/08 - Baby Products Under Scrutiny
- 01/18/08 - The Farmers' Market Effect
- 01/15/08 - Parents Fret as Scientists Debate Plastics
- 01/14/08 - Food Allergies Stir a Mother to Action
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