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 […]
Here’s some Tom Vilsack trivia I wasn’t aware of: The USDA secretary’s adoptive mother was a raging alcoholic and prescription drug abuser who, Vilsack says, spent most of her time “in the attic, dealing with her demons.” But Vilsack did have one connection to his mother: somehow she always found a way to make him a brown-bag lunch to take to […]
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A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing—especially when it results in a stealthy government formula for raising lunch prices at the nation’s schools that will cause hundreds of thousands of children—perhaps millions–to abandon the program. In its recent re-authorization of the school meals program, Congress included a provision that would force schools to raise […]
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