Depriving kids early of good nutrition fills pockets with $$

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By Hesh Goldstein

Keeping the public nutritionally uneducated starts as early as it gets. Through the school lunch program.

In this era of government bailouts and concern over wasteful spending, an opportunity presents itself to take a hard look at the National School Lunch Program. When it was started in 1946 as a public safety measure it certainly turned out to be a disaster.

Under the program, the USDA gives public schools cash for every meal they serve – $2.57 for a free lunch, $2.17 for a reduced-price lunch and 24 cents for a paid lunch.

In 2007, the program cost around $9 billion, a figure …read more

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