From: "Tanya Love"
Oh, another cultural difference there - we TAKE our lunch to school with us here - we don't have "cafeterias" that serve Hot meals to our kids. We do have "tuckshops" where the kids can place an order in a brown paper bag (or online now!), and have it delivered to their classrooms, but most kids only do that like once per week, as a special "treat", or when, like me, their mums haven't been to buy groceries and can't work out what to send them for lunch! Lol.
The dirty little secret behind American school cafeterias is they're part of the "socialist" agenda.
See, reformers somehow got the idea in the early 20th century that sometimes poor families might not have money to feed their kids, but they didn't want "charity".
If the school served a nutritious lunch every day to EVERY child, the "charity" of feeding the poor kids could be disguised, and at least they wouldn't starve to death. It's linked in with such communistic ideas as mandatory school attendance and the abolition of child labor.
It served a couple of other purposes as well. The schools bought most of the food locally putting a little money into the hands of local farmers. The rest of the food came out of USDA "surplus", reducing that surplus, saving the USDA warehousing costs and making room for them to buy more food to keep up the price supports to agri-business.
And the school cafeterias gave a fair number of women jobs. Workfare, not welfare.
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