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Hundreds of students return to the cafeteria after Montana high school relinquishes $120,000 in federal funding and drops Michelle Obama's lunch program Bozeman High School officials dropped National School Lunch Program Program set limits on calories and fat and mandated more grains and fruit Students were leaving campus to get fast food instead of eating at cafeteria Since program was scrapped, traffic is up to about 1,000 customers a day By Evan Bleier For Dailymail.com Published: 09:37 EST, 16 October 2015 | Updated: 21:55 EST, 16 October 2015 The decision by officials at a high school in Montana to give...

<p>At Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora, students shuffle through the lunch lines loading their plates with pears, plums, pizza slices and fruit slushies.</p> <p>At the lunch tables, many devour the cheese-and-mushroom pizza, guzzle their milk but leave whole pears, ripened plums and the slushies destined for the garbage.</p>

CNSNews.com) – First lady Michelle Obama said at the School Nutrition Association Conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday that individuals who work in school cafeterias across the country not only educate and feed children, but help to strengthen national security. “Every day, with the food you serve, you're teaching them these critical lessons about nutrition and healthy eating,” Obama said. “You're shaping their habits and their preferences, and you're affecting the choices that they're going to make for the rest of their lives.” She said the responsibility of feeding 31 million children through school food programs at the nation’s public...

“Was there anyone who wanted children to go to bed hungry?” The question is posed by Charles Grodin in his new book “I Like It Better When You’re Funny” to illustrate his belief that conservatives and liberals aren’t really that different. I agree with him. None of us wants children going to bed hungry and most of us feel that a decent society steps in to protect defenseless young citizens. That being said, I think the difference between conservative and liberal positions is what each “camp” considers to be the solution. One believes in teaching people to fish and the...