Posted on 02/10/2020 7:17:06 AM PST by karpov
Growing up I had to make lunches for all my siblings(5). The night before.My children made their own lunches too. It meant you had more time at recess and fewer lines. losing your retainer was always a problem though.
You savages! Let the government do it for you!
Don’t forget the “backpack” program, where snacks are provided for weekends. Can’t expect people to feed their own kids on the weekends, can we? And to prevent childhood starvation during the summers, many schools provide free lunches to anyone who looks to be under 18 years old.
Any suggestion to cut food-stamp allotments to families of children availing themselves of all of this free food is, of course, rightly condemned as “cruelty”.
I’m a rural Illinois corn belt resident. Maybe those city boys don’t realize what you end up with when all your citizens are forced into equal housing with equal care and feeding but we do. We see it all the time. It’s called livestock confinement farming.
Oooo...yeah. I forgot about the “Backpack Program”. YIKES!
I would have loved it if pizza and mac & cheese had been “ever present” in any of the schools I went to. They were the only things that were even halfway edible.
I started packing my own lunches as a kid because I couldn’t stomach the garbage being served.
My youngest is 11 and still a picky eater. She doesn’t like school lunches, eats barely half of it and it’s a waste of money. Packing isn’t necessarily cheaper, but we can insure it’s what she likes and will eat, it’s higher quality, and it actually fills her up. Her choice, our choice, win-win.
“The department’s own data shows that participation in the national lunch program is higher in cafeterias that serve healthier meals...”
Here’s a link to the data, which compares data from the 2009 - 2010 and 2014 - 2015 school years: https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/SNMCS_Summary-Findings.pdf.
Note Section IV re: “plate waste” and the contradiction in Section V re: nutritional value of the lunches. On the one hand, the study acknowledges that 30.9% of vegetables, 28.9% of milk, and 25.5% of fruits and fruit juices end up in the garbage. On the other hand, the study claims that the lunches “consumed” as schools that participate in the national lunch program are more nutritious than lunches consumed at non-participant schools. The reality, however, is that the students at schools that participate in the national lunch program are not “consuming,” but rather, throwing away the most nutritional part of the lunch.
Where I work there is a guy in his mid 60’s. His two sons, in their mid 40’s, both work there. Every morning he walks in with two paper bags, one for each son. Inside the bags is the breakfast their Mom made for them.
A woman in her 60’s gets up early to make breakfast for her two grown sons.
It’s called love you dumb freaking liberal idiots!
Every kid that goes to school with a paper bag knows that someone at home cares about them.
Individualism bad, collectivism good - NYT says so.
Kiddos, don’t let anyone honcho your lunh.
Hey Jennifer,
Shut up and make me a sammich.
With meat.
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Only in the liberal world can taking responsibility for your own children be a bad thing. The left is one insane clown posse.
mmm, Lunch.
Just barf
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/these-are-some-of-the-grossest-school-lunches-in-the-us
Never even crosses their mind that if they made public school lunches awesome, kids wouldn’t bring their lunch from home. The idea of competing is utterly foreign to them. All they can think of is browbeating and coercion
The reason why they wrote the article is in the words “The Trump administration isn’t much help”
Boomer: “There is no Free Lunch!”
Millenial: “What are you talking about? I ate one every day for 12 years.”
Jennifer E. Gaddis is an assistant professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She brings a feminist perspective to food politics through her research on the social, political, and economic organization of public school lunch programs. Her forthcoming book, The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools, is a work of activist scholarship that centers the perspectives of school lunch activists and frontline cafeteria workers who are fighting for food justice in communities across the United States.
Her second book-length project draws on fieldwork in China, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, and Finland to examine how civil society activism, corporate interests, and national policy priorities shape the social justice and ecological goals of government-sponsored school lunch programs. By uncovering how, when, and to what extent school lunch programs operate as a site of resistance to the status quo—in terms of advancing food sovereignty, just labor practices, and ecological sustainability—this research will offer insight into just how pervasive the social expectation that school lunch, and care more broadly, should be “cheap,” and what can be done to shift the conversation to a more generative space from which to collectively reimagine the social organization of care through public institutions.
At UW-Madison, Dr. Gaddis is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, the Center for Cooperatives, the Center for Child and Family Well-being, and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. She serves on the advisory boards for the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice and the School for Workers and as the faculty advisor for Slow Food UW. She also co-leads two community-based research projects that involve graduate students in the Civil Society and Community Research PhD program. The first project in South Madison, Wisconsin, examines food justice and culinary agency among an inter-generational group of parents, children, and youth.
The second project in Fort Peck, Montana, will enhance tribal food sovereignty on the reservation through community-driven infrastructure development in combination with oral histories of food sovereignty activists and digitally mapped trade networks sourced from across Turtle Island (North America). View her complete Curriculum Vitae here.
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