Our Campaign
Campaign Mission
- Our
mission is to improve the nutrition children receive through public programs
and at home so they can learn more, be healthier and better achieve their
goals.
Campaign Importance
- Good nutrition is the foundation of
good health. It can
eliminate diseases influenced by western diets such as diabetes,
hypertension, and some cancers.
- Good nutrition not only helps
children's health and learning but also improves executive
function--their the ability to set goals and achieve them.
- Good nutrition is also critical to
supporting a healthy ecosystems and reversing the damage of commercial
farming and animal husbandry.
Campaign Elements
- Change the accepted public health
nutrition standards to embrace “real food” and reject fad diets and
dietary advice based on faulty science. Real food is food produced as close to home as possible. It is minimally processed--free
of chemicals and chemical processing that deplete foods of their natural beneficial nutrients.
- Educate legislators and the public
about the importance of promoting “real food” as a way to protect the
health of our children and our nation.
- Inform legislators of the need to increase funding for public nutrition programs so that those programs can offer real food to the millions of low income children they serve every day (programs like National School
Lunch and Breakfast, Food Stamps, and Child Care Food Program).
- Investigate and help correct
institutionalized discrimination that discourages children from benefiting
from public nutrition programs. It does not matter how good our programs are if children are shamed into not using them.
- Provide parents with easy to follow
and accurate information about how to improve their family health through
a diet of real food.
- Raise awareness about the unavailability
of real food at common grocery outlets and encourage businesses to provide
healthier, less processed foods.
Campaign Partners -- Join
Us!
If you are a
professional with experience in promoting real food, marketing, researching or
fundraising and have time to volunteer, we can use your help. CBN is a lean operation, benefiting from the
talents and time of many people who share our goals. We spend as little time as possible fundraising so we can spend more time on our mission, so we need people like you to join our volunteer staff.
CBN is a
community organization and needs your support in name and dollars. Whether your donation is $5 or $5000, we
benefit from showing that we have a broad base of support for our mission and
its elements. Please visit our DONATE
page for more information.
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