I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama Administration should change America. It’s called “Ideas for Change in America.”
The Ideas for Change in America competition was created in response to Barack Obama’s call for increased citizen involvement in government. The final round of voting began on January 5 and is comprised of the top 3 rated ideas from each of the 30 issues in the first round of the competition, which collectively received more than 250,000 votes.
One idea is titled: Vegan school lunch options. I thought you might be interested in getting involved and recommend you check it out. You can read more and vote for the idea by clicking the following link:
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/vegan_school_lunch_options
This idea is currently in 16th Place and needs 1082 more votes to be part of the final 10 ideas presented at our event in Washington, DC
The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case Foundation. At the event we will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign behind each idea in collaboration with our nonprofit partners to turn each idea into actual policy.
The top 10 ideas will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at becoming policy.
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xetvx (26 comments)
January 13, 2009 at 6:31 amSweet! Do you know who proposed this idea? I will have to read the link you have provided, O-Knowledgeable-Webmaster! thanks so much for this :o)
In the beginnings of my becoming vegan, before I spoke up for what I wanted, I was quite shy about my new “diet.” But while working at a specific school as an English teacher, I found the cafeteria to be very accommodating.
Each day I would trek myself to the lunch line and ask what was being served. Most times I walked away with my head hanging low. Until the same lunch lady took noticed and asked me “Why don’t you ever eat. What kind of lunch are looking for?” and I said to her, well I don’t eat meat or any dairy products and your food always has cheese, even when it doesn’t contain meat. She said, “honey, all you have to do is ask. We have plenty of stuff here and you have to eat. Why don’t you come down 15 min before class each day and request what you would like and I will make sure it is prepared for you.” I was eternally grateful, until I left that school to pursue higher learnings- that is.
Anyway, before I knew it, this option was made available to all the teachers and I began to notice that on some days there the childrens’ lunch options were basic vegetarian only. Now to get them to offer a vegan meal each and every day without fail. I’m all for that! Where do i sign up? :o)
veganinvegas (1 comments)
January 20, 2009 at 12:59 pmAlas.. only 8530 votes, not enough to make the top 10. We were only 1,114 votes away.
Close, very close.