Comments on: “That Lunch is Nasty” – Perspectives on the National School Lunch Program

By: SAMIR

SAMIR — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:10:02 +0000

SOME kids spend money for no reasonin my scholl{cloonan middle school} the only thing they gonna do is buy lunch,pick at it and then throw it away cause its never good.

By: Sharon Hardman

Sharon Hardman — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:17:03 +0000

I’ve been teaching PE for 30 years. You cannot change a thing about school lunches until the US Dept of Agriculture changes law 210.10. That’s the “ask don’t serve” law. A child only has to have an entree’ (sandwich, pizza, nuggets) and milk on his/her plate. The fruits and vegetables are a choice under the counter. This law has been around since 1972. I went to school before then and there were 5 food groups on my plate every day, no choices and no junk. I ate it all as most kids did. What is so darned hard about putting 5 food groups back on a kid’s plate? Nothing. 210.10 just enabled the federal government to reduce its budget. How cheap and wrong it has proven. Pay for the kids lunches or pay for their obesity, and dieseases late. Now we have a generation of fat picky kids eating brown plates and teaching thier kids the same.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:09:50 +0000

Excellent post. I learned so much.

I hope that this opportunity to improve the CNA is not missed.

By: Gray

Gray — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:07:04 +0000

Awesome article, Shane – very well written, researched, personal, but still objective. I’m with you all the way.

Michael Pollan for President in 2016.