Posted on 03/05/2014 3:35:37 PM PST by Uncle Chip
More than one million U.S. schoolchildren stopped buying school lunches during the 2012-2013 academic year, after new nutrition standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama took effect.
The Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency inside the federal government, told members of Congress in a little-noticed January 28 report that participation in the school lunch program declined by 1,086,000 in that one year, the biggest drop on record.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise its school lunch standards to bring them in line with a new set of nutrition requirements.
The first lady rolled out the law's final regulations in January 2012 with a presentation linked to her 'Let's Move!' children's health initiative. Changes took effect that fall. In the ensuing nine months, 33 states cited 'challenges with palatability – food that tasted good to students' as one reason sales tumbled.
The stunning drop in cafeteria meals came despite annual increases in the number of children who receive free, taxpayer-subsidized lunches every weekday, the GAO report concluded.
One change in the nutrition standards, a reduction in the maximum calorie-count of each meal, came under fire from student-athletes at the high school level who complained that their bodies needed more food in order to sustain long workouts and build muscle mass.
At the same time, increases in fuel prices and varying weather patterns increased the wholesale cost of many of the fruits and vegetables that student found in larger quantities on their plates.
As a result, the new meals were also more expensive....
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Laz isn’t around right now to hit that so I guess I will.
Bet ya a cookie that funding goes up though.
I’d love to know what Moochelle’s kids eat for their meals
I think their menu is posted online. Might try googling it.
That’s classified — if that classified info was ever leaked out of the White Hut then busboys and sous chefs in there would begin to disappear.
Who wants to pay for starvation food.....sawdust bread, and
soy burgers?
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