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We use media and storytelling strategies to strengthen the food movement by decoding corporate spin, revealing the true cost of industrial food, and showing how, together, we can transform the food system.
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We expose industry spin, bust food myths, and challenge corporate power.

Together with community and movement partners, we co-develop media strategies for policy wins and movement-building that reflect our shared vision of racial, economic, environmental, and food justice. Using a wide range of tools—including short videos, radio, podcasts, social media, events, and storytelling—we flex our communications muscle for the food system we need.

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19mayAll Day19junReal Food Reads: The Labor of Lunch

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There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap, precooked hamburger patties and chicken nuggets chock-full of industrial fillers. Yet it’s no secret that meals cooked from scratch with nutritious, locally sourced ingredients are better for children, workers, and the environment. So why not empower “lunch ladies” to do more than just unbox and reheat factory-made food? And why not organize together to make healthy, ethically sourced, free school lunches a reality for all children?

The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Foods and Real Jobs in American Public Schools by Jennifer E. Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed. By providing a feminist history of the US National School Lunch Program, Jennifer E. Gaddis recasts the humble school lunch as an important and often overlooked form of public care. Through vivid narration and a dose of much needed imagination, The Labor of Lunch offers a stirring call to action and a blueprint for school lunch reforms capable of delivering a healthier, more equitable, caring, and sustainable future.

Join us in reading this book in May and stay tuned for our interview with the author on the Real Food Reads Podcast, now available on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, GooglePlay, and Stitcher.