Take Action!

FACT: Nine Out of 10 Schools Offer Junk Foods to Kids.
You can help today by supporting one or all of the initiatives below.

Become a Member of Parents Against Junk Food

Support the School Food Reform Bill
Urge your representatives in Congress to support Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection, a bill that would improve the nutritional quality of school foods by updating the nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold in schools throughout the school day, including in vending machines, snack lines, and school stores. To support this bill, click here.

Support The USDA Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program
The USDA Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program is currently successfully
operating in 14 states.

Providing children with fresh fruit and vegetable snacks during the school day, has been proven to be a model for increasing children's consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables, decreasing their purchase of soda, chips and candy.

To support this effort in your state, click here.

You Can Help Get Junk Foods Out of Schools!

Many principals, school board members, and other school officials oppose efforts to stop the sale of junk foods, because junk food sells. But according so Susan Lacy, School Food Service Director at Stoneham High, kids will buy healthy food if they are given the option.

You can help! Reach out to school officials and urge them to get behind the School Food Reform Bill. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has made it easy, click on this link and choose Urge Education Officials to Support School Foods Reform.

Help the Center for a Commercial Free Childhood
Urge Viacom’s Nickelodeon and Kellogg to stop marketing junk food to young children.
On Saturday morning television, 98% of Kellogg’s commercials are for foods of poor nutritional content. The Center for a Commercial Free Childhood, the Center for Science and the Public Interest, and parents from Massachusetts have filed a suit against Viacom and Kellogg to make them stop marketing junk food to young children. To urge Viacom and Kellogg to stop marketing junk food to young children, click here.

Junk Food Advertising: A $15 Billion Dollar Business
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) has only five full-time employees to monitor the $15 billion industry of child-directed marketing. CARU does not monitor in-school marketing, product placement, or many of the latest marketing techniques, and it has no enforcement powers. If you see marketing that you believe is inappropriate for children, let CARU know.
Click here for more information