I don’t get the “equal treatment” argument. If there is enough demand for a type of food that does not raise costs, and is relatively healthy, why not offer it?
Your argument sounds rather Statist to me. (Eat whatever the gubmint tells you). Offering alternatives (provided there is sufficient demand for them) is much more free-market.
Your argument sound more anti meat than anything to me, how long have you been a member of the national human association and their animal rights wackos movement anyway.
“Your argument sounds rather Statist to me. (Eat whatever the gubmint tells you). Offering alternatives (provided there is sufficient demand for them) is much more free-market.”
You have no argument because we’re not discussing the free market. We’re discussing the state. State run schools, which operate from the tax payer’s money. Why don’t YOU just open a free market bazaar in front of your house offering free, diverse and delicious meals to children? You could offer anything and everything available on Earth. Then, YOU could offer everything you think people deserve without using the power of the STATE to force me to pay for it. Statist indeed...
You have no idea what the demand for these meals is at this school. So your argument fails again.
What other enterprise would you like to engage in with taxpayer’s money?