How the Federal School Lunch Program Became a Spicy Political Debate | Retro Report

Of course it was Reagan

Absolutely revolting. I was taught it was criminal to take candy from babies, but I guess breakfast and lunch don't count. America produces enough food to feed everyone. It's disgusting that a politician can take it all away with a pen stroke. All I see in this video is how government and media normalize manufactured famines.

Why the hell are republicans so against doing shit for the people?!

the reason kids throw out food? Not enough time to eat and it's frankly, as an adult, some of the meals looks so nasty I wouldn't even feed it to hogs

"Chinese language charter school in Minneapolis"...

my mom made my lunch. and we were not in the money.

you lost me when you said he was a she.

I grew up poor in Minnesota's public school system and at the time my family didn't have much money but we made just enough to not qualify for free school meals. As a result either because my folks couldn't pay (or because the school's shoddy payment processing system wouldn't work) I would sometimes go hungry. When the DFL extended the free school meals program last year I became a forever DFL-er. Once you've experienced childhood hunger you know no other child deserves to feel that same way and as long as Minnesota keeps voting for the DFL I hope no child ever will. Thanks for your video Retro Report

America went from its wrong to take candy from a baby to let’s find more babies to steal from. 😢

the people who are against giving kids free food have never had sleep for dinner

I'm not sure that Hoagland learned the lesson being taught.

the reduced/free school breakfast and Lunch program was designed to help poor/disabled students launched as part of the Great Society in 1965 by Fmr. president Lyndon Johnson

Because keeping food from kids means the greedy people in government can keep more for themselves Republicans are disgusting

If they want to save money why not make food that is healthy but makes a lot of it like liver and onions or Ratatouille that were made during Medieval Europe or the Great Depression because those won't be expensive

My state has made lunch free for all students however we often throw the food out because its nasty and sometimes UNSAFE to eat! I've gotten moldy, undercooked, and expired food on several occasions.

“The important thing is every student is getting a lunch” correct!

When I was in school the food was majority good! Maybe once a week it wasn't the best, but still good. I only have my schools in Florida to go by, but early 2000's cafeteria food was still good. Once I left some major shit went down. It makes me sick. I've read lunch menus from multiple different school and they are TRASH! It pisses me off!

How is that school lunches not part of the school budget? Everyone deserves free breakfast & lunch

I was absolutely spoiled...my school lunches were declious. I went to a private catholic school in northeast Indiana. All our school lunches were homemade by a wonderful lunch staff.

the funniest part is that tomatoes are fruit, not vegetables

I think it would be more fair to call it a bland and greacy one than a spicy one.

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Maybe if they are concerned about students throwing away food, they could just make the food taste better rather than defunding the programs? Crazy idea, I know.

You can't learn very much on an empty stomach

All I know is that in the 1980’s, Watertown City school lunches were found hazardous to one’s health. Remember, a ketchup packet = a serving of vegetables!

I don't understand why this was a federal problem in the first place. This is not what the founding fathers imagined. The state should be running it

When I was a kid, my single mom was barely making enough to keep a roof over our head. But here in NJ she still "made too much" for me to qualify for free school meals. I'm 28 now and can still remember the embarrassment I faced when I had a tray ripped from my hands because my school lunch account was too low. And it doesn't sound like things are any better today, than they were when I was in K-12 many moons ago.

Conservative from Alabama here. I fully support the reduced lunch and free lunch programs. This is not a left vs right issue, this is a class issue. Poverty has no place on either side of the aisle.

How hard is it to make a good school lunch?

I work as a Substitute for the local school district. Yes, they have a salad bar now but most of the food is still junk food. It's provided for free to the students but the teachers have to pay almost $5 for lunch now. Last year it was only $3.

At least this is one of these things that unites people. I work with a woman who voted for Trump, but she still says kids should all have a right to food at school.

Free breakfast and lunch for every child in the country is going to be $30 billion. Our discretionary military spending is $895 billion. Just food for thought.

My issue with free school lunches is that teachers are underpaid so it’s kinda just picking which problem to fund and in my area there’s no shortage of food bank food so there’s really no reason kids shouldn’t have food.

Remember, the ones blindly supporting the program are also the ones who complain the most about the quality and the companies

As a lunch lady, I am so grateful that my schools are providing healthy, good, tasty food. And the servings are a good size for the kids.

I’m so grateful that my parents provided lunches for me and my brothers. Some of the lunches would actually stick to the tray if you flipped it. 🤢

But the school children used to be majority white. They don't want to feed latinos and other immigrants. Smh

it feels like i learn something new every week that reagan is to blame for