More than half of Europeans, including most students, consume one meal a day outside of their homes. By buying, processing and serving millions of meals a day, canteens therefore represent a great possibility creating real change in the market towards good, clean and fair food and practices. Institutions, and in particular schools, have a huge responsibility in order to improve canteen services and guarantee children and their families a more varied and authentic understanding of food. Slow Food believes that an effective education is based on the idea that food means pleasure, culture and conviviality, and that the act of eating is able to influence values, attitudes and emotions.
Slow Food in the Canteen is a program developed to put these values into practice by working directly with collective catering activities, managers, staff and consumers. Under this program, Slow Food focuses on raising awareness and implementing the European Commission’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to improve school food and students’ nutrition through two schemes focusing on fruit and milk. To this end, Slow Food provides European schools, parents and local institutions with the instruments to utilize the possibilities offered through CAP and invites them to integrate these tools in the schools’ approach to food, complemented with Slow Food educational projects.
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