I stopped my independent reporting on the school lunch program mainly because the people who run the nation’s cafeterias really don’t want anyone from the outside seeing what actually goes on in there. How we feed our kids at school is one of America’s dirtiest little secrets. Too bad, because it could be really interesting […]
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Amid all the hysteria over pizza and potatoes this week the mainstream media missed the real story behind the USDA’s embattled school nutrition guidelines by half and mangled the other half badly. The half they missed: These guidelines [PDF], ostensibly aimed at making school food healthier, were not the creation of Michelle Obama or the […]
First it was potatoes. Now it’s pizza. The processed food industry is reaching out to its friends in Congress to scuttle new USDA guidelines that were supposed to make school meals healthier. Politico reports that House and Senate negotiators are likely to approve agriculture appropriations language that would allow the tomato paste on pizza to […]
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