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Origin of US school lunches

I've heard that Eleanor Roosevelt started the school meals before it was officially signed? Anyone care to look it up? Green caterpillar (talk) 00:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welfare link

I'm adding a link here to Welfare. I hope it's okay. They're closely related. Stars4change (talk) 06:19, 1 February 2009 (UTC) I think it should have more information every sentence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.134.38.34 (talk) 12:04, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The welfare link should be removed school lunches have little to do with welfare. Neosiber (talk) 04:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

It says the picture is from 1936, but the program didn't start until 1946. So which is right? Neosiber (talk) 04:48, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Berkeley Food System project

I added some information on the Berkeley Food System project which serves to educate children and parents about healthy eating by putting healthier foods in school lunches as well as to have gardens where children will grow their own vegetables to learn more about healthy eating. sonia_ali786 (talk)

Comparison with the 1950s

A 1999 survey by the Medical Research Council suggested that despite rationing, children in 1950 had healthier diets than their counterparts in the 1990s, with more nutrients and lower levels of fat and sugar.[11]

However, comparing 1999 with 1950 would also show a significantly higher level of disposable income across the board in 1999, which means that it would actually be affordable for parents to provide "healthy food" for their children at home, if the school option is so bad. But I suppose thats a bit too much effort, isnt it. Perhaps the school should also be responsible for wiping the kids' asses and taking them to the bloody seaside as well? Or maybe the semi educated lisping Mockney wanker Jamie Oliver will campaign for THAT as well...... What a bunch of fucking shit.

Your opinion dosnt matter. Fact does. Also sign your posts 68.81.196.123 (talk) 22:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Healthfullness of school meals

The claim that school meals are a cause of obesity is unsupportable. The one article cited showed obesity was associated with eating school lunch, but does not show that school meals cause obesity.570cjk (talk) 15:06, 29 November 2011 (UTC) I doubt that the standard of nutrition amongst British children fell from the 1950's to the 1990's due to Margaret Thatcher! More likely the introduction of American junk food was the cause. 1950's food was plain, unprocessed and healthy. How much junk food would that describe?JohnC (talk) 08:27, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meal clarification

It would be helpful if the meals were referred to as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. The term 'dinner', used frequently in this article is ambiguous, depending greatly on culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.136.13.242 (talk) 19:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Branching out to create "School Feeding in Low-Income Countries"

I have been looking over the School Meals article and think that it would be very valuable to examine school feeding in low-income countries beyond what has been mentioned on this page. I think this would be best done on a new page, which examines school feeding programs run by international organizations and NGOs in an effort to improve overall global development, nutrition, and education statuses, as opposed to the government-run school meal programs mentioned in this article that are welfare-focused, and sustained by "marketing and a push for healthier meals." I am contributing to Wikipedia as part of my "Gender and Development" course and Rice University, and have found what I believe is a tremendous opportunity to collaborate with the rest of the Wikipedia world to create a new page entitled "School Feeding in Low-Income Countries" that focuses on the capacity for school feeding to improve international development, as well as access to education for girls. I think that the School Meals page that currently exists is very valuable, as any child will benefit from readily available nutritious food, but I would like to expand the scope of information available on Wikipedia. Laurenpedia (talk) 22:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Free school meal

The pages have considerable over-lapping content and could both use improved referencing and coherency that a good merger would bring. Mountain^cirque 15:45, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]