“Universal Free School Meals: The Key to Better School Food” with Janet Poppendieck, March 26th

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM Campus
Free and open to the public

What bold steps can Vermont communities take to transform school food, our children’s health, our educational institutions, and our local farm economies?

Janet PoppendieckJanet Poppendieck is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America; (University of California Press, 2010); Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Penguin, 1999); and Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Rutgers University Press, 1985).

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Co-sponsored by UVM Women’s and Gender Studies Program, UVM Food Systems Initiative, UVM Food Systems Master’s Program, Hunger Free Vermont, VT FEED, and Shelburne Farms