USDA Meal Plans Hurt School Budgets

摘要

The proposal by USDA to alter school meal plans is a radical change that will have severe consequences for schools, school boards and the students. The USDAs proposed school meal plans initially caught the attention of the potato industry because of restrictions placed on schools' ability to offer potatoes in school meals. The conclusions of registered dieticians, school food-service professionals and nutritionists who reviewed the. proposed meal plans confirmed there was no nutrition-based reason todiscriminate against potato consumption in schools.