This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award
2012. The essays in School Food Politics explore the intersections of food and politics on all
six of the inhabited continents of the world. Including electoral fights over universally free
school meals in Korea nutritional reforms to school dinners in England and canteens in
Australia teachers' and doctors' work on school feeding in Argentina and more the volume
provides key illustrations of the many contexts that have witnessed intense struggles defining
which children will eat why what and how they are served and who will pay for and prepare
the food. Contributors include reformers writing from their own perspectives from the
farm-to-school program in Burlington Vermont to efforts to apply principles of critical
pedagogy in cooking programs for urban teens to animal rights curriculum. Later chapters shift
their focus to possibilities and hope for a different future for school food one that is
friendlier to students «lunch ladies » society other creatures and the planet.
