Every day, 27 million children sit down in school cafeterias to eat a plateful of government-supplied food. The meals consist of typical lunch fare - burgers, green beans, pizza, apples, lasagna.

McDonald's, Burger King and Costco test meat 10 times more frequently. Much of the chicken that makes its way into the School Lunch Program comes from "spent hens" that are too old for egg-laying ...

WASHINGTON – Let them eat meat. The Agriculture Department plans to do away with limits on the amount of meats and grains that students can have in their school lunches, following complaints ...

Susan Hartley knows exactly where the now-shuttered Hallmark meat plant is: The high-walled compound sits just six blocks from her office. But until 143 million pounds of beef from the company ...

Feb. 13 (UPI) --Less than a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed that cultivated chicken is safe to eat, lab-grown meat faces legislation that could keep it off students' plates ...

Despite lingering fears about irradiated meat, the Agriculture Department is moving forward with putting the specially sanitized meat into the national school lunch program by 2004, a department ...

School Lunch Nutrition Worse Than Fast-Food, Says USA Today : Shots - Health News The National School Lunch Program gets meat from the USDA that is subject to far less testing than it would be by ...

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids' meals. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of ...

Meat alternatives, school lunch. Hosted by Evan Kleiman Feb. 29, 2020 Food & Drink. Listen 57 min MORE Local 1 workers gather in protest outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters. Photo courtesy of ...

Thankfully, Jeremy Umansky is here to help you navigate the wonderful world of cured meats. As chef and co-owner of Larder ...

An East Tennessee school district served years-old pork to students for lunch and is now implementing new food-handling procedures.Media outlets report that the frozen meat had dates of 2009 to ...