7 Reasons Why Congress Should Pass Child Nutrition Now

Get school foods cleaned up with a farm-to-school approach. I would love that … it makes perfect sense!!

Unfortunately, intuitive correctness is not what we do best. Plus, policymakers allow political realities to justify inaction. I was talking to a director of school food service about this very thing. He said, “Will, I get it, and I agree with you. Eat real food, blah blah blah. But as soon as I let my cafeteria workers actually handle a knife and prepare more food (rather than warm up something frozen from the back of a truck), I’ve got to renegotiate their Union Contracts. Plus we have a contract w the food provider (Aramark?? I think it was) that constrains what we can and can’t provide. It’s complicated.”

And you want to scream at them … “These are our children!! Get over your little hurdles and make it happen!!”
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