Argumentative Essay On School Lunches

Lunch is one of the most important meals of the day and is consumed mostly in school cafeterias for children and adolescence. Wholesome lunches are vital in maintaining a healthy metabolism and give children energy for the rest of the school day. Children are advised to eat healthily but do not always do so because the choices of tastier, fatty foods offered in school cafeterias. The National School Lunch Program, NSLP, which is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools set nutritious guidelines for lunches served in school cafeterias (USDA). However, school campuses still offer foods high in fat as well as selling candy, chips, and soda in their vending machines, as well as their school shops. In order

So when the news reported recently that school children in Harlan County, Kentucky wanted to tell Michele Obama that her food tastes like vomit, I took it in with a liberal sprinkling of salt. But when my grandson says the food now being served at school is even worse than it used to be, I listen, especially since I have eaten a lunch or two at school with him in years past. Even before the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, school lunches tasted terrible to me and I watched in astonishment how much of that food, over which so much money was spent and labor expended, went straight into the garbage can untouched. I salute Michele Obama for trying to do something about childhood obesity. I just don’t think either government or private business can supply really good tasting food to anything as big and sprawling as our school system. Quality fruit and vegetables defy factory production but factory food is the only way to supply that much food. That’s why so many people don’t like vegetables even when served by their favorite restaurant. (qtd. The Contrary