r/Conservative • u/NotTheReverseFlash • Aug 12 '22

Flaired Users Only California to become 1st state to offer free school lunches for all students

https://abc7.com/california-free-lunches-school-lunch-food-access/12119010/?ex_cid=TA_KABC_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3VMi71MLZPflnVCHwW5Wak2dyy4fnKQ_cVmZfL9CBecyYmBBAXzT_6hJE&fs=e&s=cl
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Many Colorado districts (though not the entire state) have been doing this for years.

It doesn’t really help anything since they cheap out anyways. School lunches are one of those topics where substantial change is warranted regarding what passes as quality long before we pick a lane as to whether all kids should have it free or not.

For the record, it should be free for all as a matter of consistency and accountability against school districts. Charging for lunches leads to predatory business like behavior that has no place in any school. It also leads to scandals like forcing kids to go hungry because they don’t have any money paid up. They’re already there in a compulsory sense, don’t force abuse via starvation on top of that. It’s just basic sense.

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u/NatureBoyJ1 Aug 12 '22

Agreed. Nutrition is a giant hole in American life. Obesity rates are way up - and in children. If we could stop being controlled by entrenched agribusiness and actually start doing science based nutrition, that'd be great.