#School-food

Jennifer E. Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert.  Transforming School Food Politics Around the World.  MIT Press, 2024 (322 pages) This is an edited volume describing programs and policies to improve school food in the United Sttates, but also Japan, Canada, Peru, Finland, India, Brazil, and South Korea.

José Tenorio.  School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies.  Routledge, 2023.   I was asked for a blurb for this one: From first-hand observations and deep research, José Tenorio makes it clear that school food in Mexico is about much more than

My email inbox last week was full of notes from people  who did not want me to miss the latest school food news: Lunchables—the prototypical ultra-processed meals, some made for kids—can now be sold and fed in schools (thanks Will Rosenzweig). Starting this year, school administrators will be

Try as hard as I can, I will never understand why everyone—rich or poor, democrat or republican—isn’t doing everything possibly to make sure that all kids in schools are offered healthy breakfasts and lunches, every day, at no cost. Children are the future of our country.  We need them to be

The USDA is trying to improve nutrition standards for school meals.  I wish it the best of luck. It is proposing over the next several years to: Limit added sugars in certain high-sugar products and, later, across the weekly menu; Allow flavored milk in certain circumstances and with reasonable