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Why should the federal government be involved in schools or school food at all? School lunches should be as local as possible with standards set by the communit
by briandear 2y ago
Why should the federal government be involved in schools or school food at all? School lunches should be as local as possible with standards set by the community. At the school my kids went to in France, the local school decided the menu and it was spectacular as the ingredients came from the local farms in the area. Fresh goat cheese delivered by the guy that made the stuff less than 1km away for example.
- spogbiper 2y agoin the US, the federal government is involved because they provide (some/most) of the funding for the meals under the Nation School Lunch Program https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp
- toast0 2y agoThe basic purpose of the USDA is to keep US Agriculture as a sustained business, so that the US has continued access to locally grown food resources. The USDA sets our basic dietary standards, and sets the standards for school meals. The primary purpose of standards for school meals is to ensure agriculture has a market for its products and a secondary purpose of feeding children. The USDA also runs SNAP, commonly known as food stamps, which provides a market for agricultural products as a primary purpose and a secondary purpose of feeding families. If the primary purpose of these things was health, they would come out of the department of Health and Human Services, possibly from its Food and Drug Agency.
- wk_end 2y agoYou should Google “does the French government regulate food in schools” before commenting about how the US government should be more like France and not regulate food in schools, as the French government very much is involved in regulating food in schools.