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Councils urged to buy local for school meals

ANDREW DENHOLM, Education Correspondent August 11 2006




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LOCAL authorities in Scotland have been urged to use locally grown fruit and vegetables for primary school meals.
The call came after a pilot project in Ayrshire showed that using local food had increased school meal take-up, raised the quality of ingredients and provided a market for producers.
Ross Finnie, Scotland's Environment Minister, said: "School meals in East Ayrshire have been reformed by buying and cooking local produce. The benefits for children in eating healthy, freshly prepared meals are obvious."
The pilot project showed a small rise in uptake of school meals in 11 primary schools across in East Ayrshire.
Councillor Tommy Farrell, Chairman of East Ayrshire's education committee, said: "I am pleased with the impact of the pilot in educational terms. We are, after all, trying to produce educated consumers of tomorrow."
It is estimated that the market for public-sector food procurement in Scotland, mainly schools, hospitals and prisons, is worth around £85m.
LOCAL authorities in Scotland have been urged to use locally grown fruit and vegetables for primary school meals.
The call came after a pilot project in Ayrshire showed that using local food had increased school meal take-up, raised the quality of ingredients and provided a market for producers.
Ross Finnie, Scotland's Environment Minister, said: "School meals in East Ayrshire have been reformed by buying and cooking local produce. The benefits for children in eating healthy, freshly prepared meals are obvious."
The pilot project showed a small rise in uptake of school meals in 11 primary schools across in East Ayrshire.
Councillor Tommy Farrell, Chairman of East Ayrshire's education committee, said: "I am pleased with the impact of the pilot in educational terms. We are, after all, trying to produce educated consumers of tomorrow."
It is estimated that the market for public-sector food procurement in Scotland, mainly schools, hospitals and prisons, is worth around £85m

It has been two weeks since I boarded a bus to D.C. with seventy migrant workers and a couple of priests to rally for immigration reform. As I talk, sang hymns, and shared this experience with my brothers and sisters I realized what an essential part migrant workers and their families play in the world. Immigrants both documented and undocumented are the backbone of the economy, without them the country would grind to a halt. They do the work that none of us value, we laugh at the idea of one of us working at a sawmill or cleaning someones home, we would however do it if that was the only thing available I know a guy who is a doctor in Mexico, but lives here and works at a sawmill, that is a crock of shit. The Sawmill is exploited his mind abd his surgical hands by not letting him practice medicine. There is going to be a general strike on May 1st where both documented and undocumented immigrants are not going to work, travel, or buy anything, this will hopefully wake up the xenophobes in Washington who do not see the gift of immigrant labor in the country

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I was rejected again from Appalachian State this time from what i call for political reasons. The Appalachian Studies field is totally mainstream with people research that does affect anyone. My research in libertion theology and base communities might have been to radical for them. Academics cannot be seperate from activism.