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Piedmont Park Labor Day “Eat-In” PromotesFresh, Local Food for Georgia Children
Who:
Georgia Organics, the state
ʼ
s leading advocate for real farmers and realfood, and Slow Food Atlanta, a member-supported group working for a food thatis good, clean, and fair.
What:
“Time for Lunch” eat-in, Atlanta
ʼ
s biggest Labor Day potluck picnic topromote serving real, Georgia grown food in Georgia schools. On Labor Day,Sept. 7, tens of thousands of people in communities across the nation will sitdown to share a meal with their neighbors. This national Eat-In will send a clearmessage to legislators:
current school lunch programs are not working, andit
ʼ
s time to provide kids with healthy food from local, sustainable farms.
 This Spring, Congress will reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act, which is the lawthat determines what 30 million children eat at school every day. We areencouraging the lawmakers to include $50 million in mandatory funding for farmto school; this would fund 100 to 500 projects per year with up to $100,000 tocover start-up costs for Farm to School programs.
When:
Sept. 7, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where:
Piedmont Park
ʼ
s grass field near the corner of 10
th
Street and MonroeDrive.
Why?
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Current lunch programs do not address the rising rates of diseases suchas obesity, type II diabetes, and other diseases that are most often linkedback to food.
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The state is the 6
th
largest producer of vegetables in the country, yetGeorgian children are the third most obese and overweight in the nation(37 percent).
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Overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becomingoverweight adults.
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