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California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals
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No you misunderstood.
They took the already baseline garbage school food program, threw it in the trash, then replaced it all with sugar injected manure, and then claimed they solved Obesity in schools.
The entire lunch trade economy tanked overnight, and something like 25-35% of students' parents at my school actually opted to stop buying school lunch because of how much the nutritional quality and portion size dropped.
I still remember the mini pancakes breakfast went from 10 pieces to 4, they got rid of the fresh fruit salad that came with it (different mix of fruits each week), and the syrup got replaced with what can only be described as leftover corn syrup from a soda machine. That thing would last you all but 30 minutes before you were hungry again and I would actually not be surprised if it stunted student mental development considering all the research behind the downsides of children not eating breakfast before school.
First time ever I was able to trade oranges, bananas, and mandarins for basically anything because the only fresh fruit that became available was dead sour apples that almost no one liked.
That was also incidentally around the same time they started taking away lunches from students who couldn't pay after crackdowns on cafeteria employees giving out free meals, though I'm not sure if that was a federal after effect or just my state.
Was so bad that kids wanted to do a revote on the mock 2008 election vote to see if Obama would lose after the fallout.
The only thing they fixed (partially) was the screwed up food pyramid with the stupid my plate marketing campaign which they wasted a ton of money printing out fliers and posters to hang on every wall, except no lunchroom was actually able to fulfill the ratio.
Not only did we all make fun of the fact that reaching the ratio in the poster was now impossible, it's still incorrect and might as well be a food pyramid 2.0.
I still have a photo of the chocolate milk with a 35g of sugar per serving lying around somewhere, will edit this if I find it.