An expensive and wasteful program serving crap kids wouldn't eat:
"Even though lunches are “free,” they are so unappetizing thanks to new nutrition standards that much food is thrown away. “It is horrible,” one inner-city principal, responsible for 1,200 students and 10,000 meals a week, told us. “It is just heartbreaking how much food is thrown away.”
So the students go hungry most of the day, until after school when enterprising vendors sell items like pork rinds, hot chips, or fresh corn mixed with cheese and mayonnaise from food carts outside of the school. Students don’t eat the free, healthy meals at school, remain hungry during the day, then flock to purchase the unhealthy foods the school lunches aim to replace."
The School Lunch Program With an Unappetizing Report Card
In The Wall Street Journal, Julie Kelly and Jeff Stier write that the first lady’s signature school-lunch program is plagued by complaints of inedible meals, wasted food and misspent funds.www.wsj.com
That shows more about US kids eating habits and how truly awful they are....
To combat obesity worldwide, most first world countries are curbing what can be advertised to minors... You may say waste but the health implications of a bad diet makes this program very cost effective...
