I didn’t read the article!!!...but here is a comment!!!
We found that institutional food packing corporations LOVE to feed kids on our quarter. Our local school provided free breakfast and lunch for all children, due to flooding of the area three years ago. EVEN though, the area was back running normally, except for a trailer park awaiting insurance and FEMA $$$,$$$,$$$. SO, they wanted to also provide DINNER for children!!!! There was to be an 18-wheeler from the city come once a week with styrofoam boxes of dinners for each day!! We protested with petitions and defeated this unbrilliant idea. The poor kids would never learn to eat except from what others give them for free...all the time having a food budget from Lone Star cards and WIC. Plus we have a local food bank that provides meat from a meat market!!—I buy my own, thanks be to God. It is disgusting to see what they buy with these cards and then what they purchase with their cash- many times for their pet food.
Literally. I'm talking chicken nuggets, french fries, pizza, breaded fish sticks, deli meats and processed cheese products. These are the fabled "hot school lunches" that are provided to our children.
When I was going to school, my mother would pack a peanut butter or tuna fish sandwich in my Partridge Family lunchbox along with a banana, apple or maybe a mini-sleeve of Fig Newtons or bag of raisins. Also a thermos of milk, that I would turn into chocolate milk if I was able to get some powder mix. School lunches back then cost us non-poor kids a couple of quarters or some such and no way was my non-poor Mom paying it!