So, instead of pandering to the fast food culture,
the French school lunch system further expounds on the importance of good, slow food (although in France children have at least 30 minutes to eat - unheard of in the U.S. - followed immediately by recess.
While the
French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the
French school system can put locally grown foods on the
school lunch menus: the monies for the
school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.