I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind
of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap
processed food; the thicket
of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack
of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or
kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead
of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central
kitchen to cook fresh meals.