Battle Over The School Lunch Program

It looks as if the fight over school lunch nutrition versus waste is heating up.

Does anyone really believe students are clamoring for more fruits and veggies?

From McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — Nothing is more exasperating to Brad Kramer than watching high school students take mandatory servings of fruits or vegetables in the cafeteria line, saunter past the cashier and dump them in the trash can.

“We have some of the healthiest trash cans in the nation,” Kramer, director of food services for the Grain Valley R-V School District, in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., quipped Wednesday.

Behind the joke, frustration simmers. Kramer and other critics of the federal standards for healthy school lunches say the rules, imposed in 2012, are too costly and restrictive, and that Congress should loosen them........  http://www.thestate.com/2015/03/04/4024622_food-fight-brewing-in-washington.html?rh=1

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