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School Food Vegetable» May 16, 2012By staffOne of the most dismaying aspects of the recent passage of new federal school meal standards was the collective caving by Congress to pressure from various food manufacturers seeking to -LS
School Food Vegetable» May 16, 2012By staffOne of the most dismaying aspects of the recent passage of new
federal school meal standards was the collective caving by Congress to pressure from various food manufacturers seeking to -LS
school meal standards was the collective caving by Congress to pressure from various food manufacturers
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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.
In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress
seeks to raise
federal reimbursement for
school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to
schools.