If you’ve been a bit wary about what’s being served in your school cafeteria, turns out, you have reason to be. If you haven’t been, well, perhaps you should take a closer look.
As Congress gets ready to reauthorize the School Nutrition Act, USA Today has been looking into the food served in schools, particularly meats. What they’ve found is that federal standards are lax enough that meat rejected by fast-food restaurants and consumers still can be served in schools.
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Already, one story about tainted meat has the U.S. Department of Agriculture vowing to make changes in its system for notifying school systems of recalls and possible contaminations. This came after shipments of potentially tainted beef were shipped to schools this summer.
But there may be a lot more to this story, and from what USA Today has uncovered it looks like powerful lobbyists representing the agriculture have been pushing inferior products into the school lunch program. Today, USA Today reports on the standards set for meat in school lunches, and writes:
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