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Headlines before the start of the 2015-2016 school year announced that Sausalito Marin City School District, in one of the most wealthy counties in the U.S., became the first in the nation to serve exclusively organic and non-GMO meals. . .
The district’s meal program, framed around fresh, local, organic, seasonal, and non-GMO ingredients, or “FLOSN,” aims to improve kids’ health and educate them about food, agriculture and the environment. . .
Referring to FLOSN, [Judi Shils, the. . . director of The Conscious Kitchen (TCK), which implemented the program] says that the curriculum accompanying the food program aims to teach kids and parents “a lot of the really good words.”. .
I asked Judi Shils why her program chooses to focus on organic and non-GMO rather than reducing unhealthy excess sodium, fat and sugar, and increasing fruit and veggie consumption, a goal most parents and educators should agree on.
“It’s part and parcel of the same thing. . .” she says. “In my mind if you’re serving non-processed food that has pesticides on it, then we are not doing justice to these kids.”
The true injustice is misleading children in the prime of their education. . .
Natalie Newell, Producer and Co-director of upcoming documentary Science Moms, which follows moms and dads (including me) who embrace evidence-based parenting, says she takes offense at anti-GMO rhetoric directed at mothers. “I’m making food-related decisions based on fact, rather than fear.”
. . . Newell says, “These children are being indoctrinated into an unscientific way of thinking.”
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