Reverting To The Standard Before School Lunches Were Politicized Would Lead To More Childhood Obesity

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 11:50 in Psychology & Sociology

In 2012, the Obama administration made the National School Lunch Program, which has provided free or reduced-cost meals in more than 100,000 public and non-profit private schools and other child-care institutions nationwide since 1946, into a political football and used beliefs that lacked any scientific basis to mandate what should be served. Schools and communities went into open revolt. For the children we care most about, those school lunches might be the best meal they got, and those were being replaced by an agenda-based menu that no one wanted to eat. read more

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