As more people become conscious of their decisions in the marketplace, many have often tried to get their hand in on school lunch programs across America. As a highschool student who has had her fair share of school lunches, a question that most likely poses on many minds is, “Is it really working?” Due to poor funding, outrageously strict requirements, and the want for convenience, many should ponder if all of this is really helping.
It can very difficult to serve and satisfy a group of students when there is very little wiggle room. Since the year 2010, many schools nationwide have been under the reign of Michelle Obama’s Hunger-Free Kids Act. This act called for more whole grains, fruits and vegetables with less fat and sodium in student’s …show more content…
So, are what schools serving even healthy? Maybe somedays yes, but as a highschool student myself it is easy to notice that lunch meals are slowly gravitating towards hand-held foods such as burgers, tacos, and pizza and those sporks are piling up in the bin. It has always been common to hear the phrase “mystery meat” when talking about a school’s lunch of perhaps salisbury steak or a hamburger since it is often the same meat used for both. Could this statement actually be true? Potentially. One very hot topic a few years ago was the acceptance of pink slime in fast food meat such as McDonalds. Although places like McDonalds and Taco Bell have announced their rejection to this pink slime, many places still use strange additives such as this and may not always serve pure meat. When growing up many school cafeterias were marked with the “Got Milk?” campaign which displayed many posters of celebrities with milk mustaches. The idea of getting one’s nutrients from milk seems satisfying and was once a smart way to do so, but most milk now has lost much of its nutrients when processed. To make up for the loss of nutrients, milk producers add in their own made nutrients and hormones. Only issue is, these added nutrients do not taste very good so these producers add in mass amounts of sugar to make it taste better. What was supposed to start as something healthy for students to drink ended up giving them more sugar, extra hormones, and false