Slow Food Atlanta Eat-in at Piedmont Park 9/7

July 27, 2009 by Jeanne Bonner
Filed under: ARTS & EVENTS 

Slow Food Atlanta is organizing an eat-in at Piedmont Park on Sept. 7 to support the use of fresh veggies and the elimination of processed foods in schools.

Organizers, including Lady Rogue of Rogue Apron, hope to make it the biggest picnic in Atlanta (not sure if that would be the biggest this year, the biggest ever, or what, but they want it to be big!).

Here’s part of the email I received from Lady Rogue:

ATLANTA’S BIGGEST PICNIC WITH A GREAT CAUSE!!!

Woohoo, that sounds more interesting, right? Basically, school lunches blow. We could make them better by adding vegetables, instead of all that processed bullhonky. So, let’s have a giant picnic, and join 181 other picnics nationwide in a show of support. Neat, huh?

Essentially, I am trying to pluck out “influencers” in our community, invite them to a BYOB grassroots organizing session August 5th where SFA leader Judith Winfrey can get ‘em all informationalized, and then set them loose to help publicize this event amongst their circles.

RSVP link for the informational session is here: tinyurl.com/rogueeatin.

*End of email*

For more information on the picnics or the campaign to improve school lunches, go here.

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3 Comments on Slow Food Atlanta Eat-in at Piedmont Park 9/7

  1. Lady Rogue on Mon, 27th Jul 2009 5:25 pm

    2. Jeanne – Thanks so much for the shoutout! Well, truth be told, I don’t know what the biggest picnic in Atlanta was, but I do think that this ought to be the largest.

    PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO COME:
    • Hipsters who love picnics and vague causes
    • Families who want better lunch options for their kids
    • DINKs who wish the screaming kids at the mall ate less sugar
    • Policy wonks doing the math on what the diabetic uninsured population will cost
    • Isolationists who’d like for American workers to have the best brains
    • Teachers who want funding for their schools

    I could go on and on … heck, that might be fun! … but the truth is that changing school lunches can be one very small linchpin of change in a very big system. If only we’d had such an opportunity with our financial system!

    Thanks again for publishing the note … I hope to meet a lot of great folks on August 5th for the organizational meeting, and again on September 7th for the picnic. BYOB and snacks, you know how we roll!

    Loves,
    Lady Rogue
    rogueApron.com • ladyroguebiz.ning.com

  2. Jeanne Bonner on Mon, 27th Jul 2009 8:26 pm

    3. The pleasure was all mine, Lady Rogue. If we truly want farm-to-table to mean something, we have to start with kids.

    Sounds like a great event. Good luck!

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