Word: lunching
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...millions of U.S. students, a hot meal has been part of the school day since Congress passed the National School Lunch Program in 1946. But with many items on today's menus crammed with fat and calories, educators are taking a cue from the local-food movement to put school lunches on a healthier path...
...National School Lunch Program, intended to prevent the return of Depression-era child malnourishment, allowed the government to buy surplus food from farmers and set minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...None of the materials with which Fly-By food is served are recyclable or compostable,” they write in their report. “Even if students take their Fly-By lunch to go as they should, their waste will head directly to landfills...
Tian is perhaps the most outspoken of the report’s authors. The only Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator of the three, she avoids Fly-By because of environmental concerns and still makes time to return to Currier House for lunch in between classes...
...from HUDS’ perspective and Harvard’s perspective that that’s something a lot of students would complain about,” she says. “It would be hard for that small number of students who really can’t eat lunch and don’t want to get Greenhouse [Café food] every single day because it’s expensive...