Farm Bill Food Fight

[Angrboda]

Nutrition and education...and education in nutrition, lol.  It came to our attention that tater tots, kraft mac, and canned fruit medley might not be setting up students for success.

The program was palpably designed to get away from the product that the rep is peddling, at a penny to many dollars, mind you.

(there have been further studies on student behavior since that are amusing in their own right.  When kids have a "mixed plate" of old school lunch and fresh school lunch..and only a few minutes to eat..they tend to consume the high cal/high sugar items first and leave the nutrition on the plate.  A straight up expression of monkeybrain, right there...but it;s how it plays out, and it shows the difficulty still ahead...even if the program was adequately funded and protected from raiders and profiteers like the honorable gentleman from maine.)

So, then, it wasn't aimed at subsidizing a particular segment of the agricultural market. If that's the case, I can see a case being made for including frozen fruits and vegetables in the school lunch program, given that most of those satisfy the nutritional aspect of the program.