Here’s Your Chance to Grade School Lunches
Scarlett Johansson and Tobey Maguire have already let their congressional representatives know that they support HR 4870, the Healthy School Meals Act, which would require schools to offer more vegetarian options in cafeterias. Now it’s your turn: Today, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is hosting a School-Lunch Lobbyist Call-In Day. Please call your representative and politely ask him or her to co-sponsor HR 4870. You might also want to mention that you can’t stomach cruelty to animals or greasy, cholesterol-laden mystery meats and pizza boats—and that you’re sick of hearing your classmates chant, “Fatty, fatty two-by-four, can’t fit through the classroom door.”
Anyone can call—students, parents, teachers, and everyone else who’s ever set foot inside a school cafeteria or shuddered to think what they’re being served in one. It only takes a minute and it’s much easier than a math quiz.
Written by Heather Moore
