Healthier School Lunches

According to a recent study, although 30.6 million students across the United States eat school lunches, only 6% of schools meet the requirements to be considered healthy by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. School lunches in America tend to contain little to no nutritional value. Because of this, making changes to the school lunch menu is crucial to the health of students all throughout the nation. Eliminating some favorite meals and changing to a healthier school lunch menu is a great idea because students eat more fruits and vegetables if they are provided to them, the meat served causes a great deal of problems that most students are unaware of, and a countless amount of families cannot afford to send their children to school with healthier options everyday.

First and foremost, creating more options of fruits and vegetables to students will result in those said students eating more fruits and vegetables. In fact, just between 2012 and 2014, there was a 18% increase of consumption of vegetables among students, simply because schools provided them with more options. That also means that if there are more healthy foods, there is a higher chance students will find foods they enjoy, that

Throughout school, everyone is taught the food pyramid, and that is what is believed to be what we should eat in one day. As a matter of fact, meat is more dangerous than most believe to be true. People who consume meat are two times more likely to develop heart diseases than vegetarians. In addition, from an environmental viewpoint, producing meat requires nearly four times more water than producing vegetables, and eating meat contributes to deforestation, water scarcity, global warming, and pollution. No matter which way you look at it, serving as much meat as schools to children is not only harmful to their health, but to the health of the entire world and generations to