Children's Health Defense
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week cut two programs that provided U.S. schools and food banks over $1 billion to purchase food from local farms and ranchers, Politico reported.
Approximately $660 million went to schools and childcare facilities, which used the funding to buy food from local farms through the Local Food for Schools program. The remainder went to fund a similar initiative, the Local Food Purchase Assistance program, which buys and distributes locally produced food to in-state food banks.
The cuts threaten to hurt school districts that are already short on resources needed to provide children with healthy lunches, School Nutrition Association (SNA) President Shannon Gleave said in a statement.
“With research showing school meals are the healthiest meals Americans eat, Congress needs to invest in underfunded school meal programs rather than cut services critical to student achievement and health,” she said…
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