WASHINGTON - Congress is fighting to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, picking apart an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
A spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards proposed by the Agriculture Department earlier this year, forcing USDA to pull back an attempt to limit potatoes on the lunch line, delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.
The spending bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The department's proposed guidelines would have attempted to prevent that.
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I worked as a manager in the schools and i can tell you the fries are baked, which is better. the pizza is low fat cheese. So i really don't know what their problem is. Maybe they just like control!! The kids will just go home and eat what they want. Can not blame them.
But the kids shouldn't have unhealthy choices available to them at school. Remember, these meals are subsidized by taxpayers. Why give them crapola? A school in suburban Atlanta went from normal school lunches, to healthy options, after the Principal had lost nearly 100 lb's with a dietician's direction on eating healthy. Kids overall grades and test scores are up, and the food actually costs LESS then it did before! I'm sorry, I'm all for free choice, but if you're subsidizing meals, then it should be healthy options only.
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