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Senate Posts New School Lunch Score: Potatoes 1, USDA 0

October 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · kids, school food

In an unprecedented act of meddling in school lunch rule making, the U.S. Senate last week approved by unanimous consent a measure that forbids the U.S. Department of Agriculture from limiting the amount of potatoes in the national school meals program. Mainstream media got it wrong: This was not a defeat for the Obama administration […]

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Lunch Ladies Tell USDA to Stuff New Meal Guidelines

March 30th, 2011 · 8 Comments · kids, school food

The School Nutrition Association, representing some 53,000 of the nation’s cafeteria professionals, has told the USDA it objects to nearly every aspect of proposed meal guidelines that call for bigger helpings of fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, fewer French fries, and less salt. Food policy advocates–including first lady Michelle Obama–have hailed the guidelines as a giant […]

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