{"id":2271,"date":"2010-11-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/7-reasons-why-congress-should-pass-child-nutrition-now.html"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:39:13","slug":"7-reasons-why-congress-should-pass-child-nutrition-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"7 Reasons Why Congress Should Pass Child Nutrition Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get school foods cleaned up with a farm-to-school approach. I would love that … it makes perfect sense!! <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, intuitive correctness is not what we do best. Plus, policymakers allow political realities to justify inaction. I was talking to a director of school food service about this very thing. He said, “Will, I get it, and I agree with you. Eat real food, blah blah blah. But as soon as I let my cafeteria workers actually handle a knife and prepare more food (rather than warm up something frozen from the back of a truck), I’ve got to renegotiate their Union Contracts. Plus we have a contract w the food provider (Aramark?? I think it was) that constrains what we can and can’t provide. It’s complicated.”<\/p>\n

And you want to scream at them … “These are our children!! Get over your little hurdles and make it happen!!”
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get school foods cleaned up with a farm-to-school approach. I would love that … it makes perfect sense!! Unfortunately, intuitive correctness is not what we do best. 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