Sure, but school meal programs are a fairly important social safety net thing for poor and/or neglected kids. Anything that messes with those is a serious quali

Sure, but school meal programs are a fairly important social safety net thing for poor and/or neglected kids. Anything that messes with those is a serious quality-of-life threat for the most vulnerable kids. You can see this in the design of public school meals: they're very concerned with pushing calories, because some kids won't eat much else that day. [EDIT] this is also why schools offer breakfast programs for poor students, which I assume are similarly affected by these shortages.