GOP: Drop fresh fruit, veggie rules for school lunches [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Congressional Republicans are moving to waive a federal rule - championed by Bay Area lawmakers and first lady Michelle Obama - requiring that children who receive school lunches be served at least one helping of fresh fruit or vegetable each day, whether they want it or not.
Some schools say the rules are too rigid, and that children are rejecting the food and dumping millions of dollars of produce in the trash each day. On Tuesday, a House Appropriations subcommittee approved a GOP bill that would waive the rules for districts that are losing money on the federal school-lunch program, and a similar proposal is pending in the Senate.
... The first lady is fighting back, along with nutrition advocates, the produce industry and Democrats who say it might be hard to wean kids off junk fare, but that it's important to keep trying.
... Some food advocates charged that Republicans are simply looking for a way to attack the first lady and taint one of the big legislative accomplishments of the Obama administration.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/GOP-Drop-fresh-fruit-veggie-rules-for-school-5493283.php
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