September 10th, 2009 by Margie

The Eat-in at Piedmont Park over Labor Day was the easiest form of activism I have ever been involved with.  We all packed up picnics to have and to share in the park, made of real food to speak up for real food in school lunches.  This was a National Day of Action for the cause.  How do I define real food?  Well Slow Food USA had a simple little blurb on the website that went like this:

What is Real Food?

Real food is good at every link in the chain. It tastes good, it’s good for us, it’s good for the people who grow it, it’s good for our country and it’s good for the planet.

I love that!  It gets at the core of why I started Vegetable Husband, too.  I want to know where my food comes from and who grows it and how they grow it.  I also want to know that if I am spending my little bit of money somewhere that it goes into my own local economy.

The Eat-in was about much more than even that.  It was about healthy lunches for school children.  Have you seen what gets served lately?  Big business has taken over our lunch rooms.  If we grow food in Georgia and milk cows in Georgia then why can’t GA children drink GA milk?  Good question!  Many people were on-hand to support these questions.  Check out the pics.  That’s our own Slow Food Atlanta Leader, Judith Winfrey behind that cardboard megaphone…

This movement for an Eat-in was happening on September 7th in every state all across America.  People care from New York to Idaho about feeding their kids healthy food.  Move over KRAFT!!