Study: Kids Will Eat Healthy School Food
November 25, 2007 By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press Writer(AP) -- Maybe getting schoolchildren to eat healthy foods isn't a hopeless struggle. Bucking some common notions, a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.
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Now how much of that healthy food went into the garbage?
Answer, based on what I've seen in school cafeterias: Most of it. On the days when schools serve healthy meals the waste of food goes way up.
What the geniuses that did this study apparently didn't realize was that the kids don't pay for those lunches. Their parents do, or sometimes the government. Lunches purchased is nearly useless as a measure of what the kids are actually eating.
And this is the sort of reasoning that's used to make policies that cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars?
Sheesh!