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Italian Schools Serve 'Eco-friendly' Meals to Kids

December 14, 2007 at 2:57 PM Education News

Rome's school cafeterias are enjoying a nutrition revolution as tens of thousands of children sit down to healthy, eco-friendly meals under strict rules.

Italian Schools Serve 'Eco-friendly' Meals to Kids

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At the November 4 Elementary School in the Italian capital, for example, the menu includes rice and tomatoes, omelettes, boiled celery and oranges, served on biodegradable plates and cups.

For snacks, the children get fair trade cocoa-and-honey cookies and chocolate bars as well as bananas from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

The revolution was long in coming in the land of pasta, first initiated in 1999 by then mayor Francesco Rutelli, a former Green who is now culture minister.

But Italy has long been a haven for quality cuisine, and taken a lead -- as home of the not-for-profit Slow Food movement founded 20 years ago in the northern Piedmont region -- in bucking the downside of fast-food culture.

Even Italian hospitals this year signed onto the "Slow Food" recipe for quality.

The schoolchildren, some of whom are obese, range in age from five to 10.

Plastic forks and knives have been banished, replaced by "grown-up" metal cutlery.

About 40 teachers concerned that the utensils are dangerous mounted a legal challenge to the change, but eventually backed down.

A dozen companies that have won tenders to supply some 145,000 meals a day to school canteens across the city must follow draconian rules.

Recipes developed by nutritionists must be followed to the letter, calories meticulously counted, and each meal must include a minimum of 30 percent fruit and vegetables, by weight.

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