Most school lunch programs in America are a .
Michael Pollan School lunch
The school lunch program buying large is a disposal for surplus agricultural commodities.
What happen is that and the industrial systems grow too much of various things.
The government buys it from them to support their and their welfare and it dumps them on schools.
Whether it’s you know chopped meat or chicken or you know whatever it is.
The results is food that is very fatty, high in , highly processed and, and, also because of budgetary problems the school cafeterias they no longer have , they have giant .
So they are utterly depending on these processed food they couldn’t it if they wanted to.
It’s about , I mean, we spent pennies on each school lunch and you know to treat our that way, we supposedly care very much about their and development but we feed them . It’s just, you know, it’s just shameful.
And fortunately there is a going on in school lunch and there are efforts to change it
The rules make it very to change it.
It’s very hard for a school lunch program to buy , to buy whole food. The rules say they have to take the lowest bidder which is often not the local farmer.
And also even if you do want to local say you want to serve hamburger made from fed beef, well if the government is giving you crummy beef it’s very hard to justify that economically.
So the food, this program is going to change both at the local level with parents and children that they want better food in their schools but also there is going to be changes at federal levels.