As many of you may know September 30th, 2010 is a big day for school meal reform. Congress has the option to increase funding for school lunches at the cost of taking money from the Food Stamp Program. Although tomorrow could be the much awaited day for school meal reform, there is still strong opposition.
One of the issues proponents of school meal reform argue, is that the quality of meat served in the fast food industry is higher than that served in school cafeterias. Over the last few years this has been a major issue stimulating conversation from the break room to Congress.
Most schools heavily rely on the government to provide their staple meat products including beef and chicken. Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture claims that all food provided to the schools, “meets or exceeds standards in commercial products” many can argue that statement as being simply untrue. It has been said that fast food restaurants such as KFC and Jack In The Box and even Campbell’s Soup would not use the meat given to the schools as their product. How can we expect our children to preform well in school when the meat given to them was denied by KFC, on it’s way to compost and ended up on their plate?
