The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, otherwise known as PETA, is making the Cleveland school district a unique offer: they’d like to buy ad space on school lunch trays. PETA Executive Director Tracy Reiman sent Cleveland school district CEO Eric Gordon a letter this week proposing to help fill the [...]
Richard North / Flickr New federal school meal rules taking effect this year require schools to serve fruits and vegetables at lunch every day, and more of them. But it can be tough to sell kids on heaping servings of fruits and vegetables. So some schools are effectively paying students to include fruits and vegetables on [...]
U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr More Ohio students will get free school meals next school year thanks to changes to federal school meal programs. The way most school meal programs work now, parents have to fill out an application in order for their child to get free meals at school. And school districts have [...]
Joseph Choi / Flickr The term food safety advocates are using is “pink slime.” The companies that sell it call it “boneless lean beef trimmings.” And until now, school districts didn’t have a way to opt out of serving it at lunchtime. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the National School Lunch Program, says [...]
The New York Times reports that Congress has blocked rules proposed by the Agriculture Department that would have significantly changed what students eat for lunch: The proposed changes — the first in 15 years to the $11 billion school lunch program — were meant to reduce childhood obesity by adding more fruits and green vegetables [...]
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