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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and their food service provider Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality (CTH) have announced a plan to serve antibiotic free chicken to K-12 students. The project is the first of its kind in a large urban school district, and will offer students healthy, high quality meals throughout the school year. Key stakeholders of this project first met at the March 2011 FamilyFarmed EXPO.

The order of 1.2 million pounds of chicken from Amish farmers will help raise awareness on the issues of antibiotic overuse in food animals. Whole Foods Market assisted CPS and CTH with their sourcing needs and helped identify Miller Poultry as the chicken provider for the 300,000 students fed daily at CPS. In addition, the project is supported by School Food FOCUS and the Healthy Schools Campaign. These organizations see this program as an important first step in efforts to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in food animals nationally and ensure the future effectiveness of antibiotics for human medicine.

More information can be found on the news release section of CTH’s website, here.

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Join FamilyFarmed.org and SnagFilms for the  “Good Food Film Countdown” to help determine the Best Food Films of all time.  Film and food fans who vote for their top documentary and fictional food film will be to win free food and products for a year from signature sponsors, including, Chipotle, Applegate, Stoneyfield, Organic Valley, Nature’s Path Organic and Earth Friendly Products.

There are over 200 of options to vote for.  The films Big Night, Like Water for Chocolate, Babette’s Feast, Chicken Soup, or even Attack of the Killer Tomatoes are just a few! And, many of the incredible Good Food documentaries that have not been widely viewed will be available to watch and voted upon.

The first round of voting runs until October 31, after which the film list will be narrowed to five non-fiction and five fiction films.  From November 1 through November 28, voters will then vote for one of the top five ranked films in each category to determine their favorite food flick.

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