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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, how much would you be willing to have your taxes go up to pay for better food in schools?

I don't oppose it, and I don't oppose raised taxes myself -- just curious as to your dollar number.[/quote]

OP.  matter  of  priorities. WHAT is  more  important  then  kids  who  ARE  the  future  tax  generators?  Total  mismanagement  of  human  potential.

Also  HOW  is it possible  that  EVERY  other  country  can  feed  kids  REAL  food  but  US?

Unless  we  help  everyone  at  the  expense  of  our  kids?

Hid  you  see  American  school  food  offering?

What  did  you  notice  about  them?

HIGHLY  processed  frozen packaged  foods.

L[b]ocal  farm  fresh  foods  are  cheaper  then  this  crsp.[/b]

[b]All  we  have  to  do  is  relocate  money  from  spending  nothing  on  industrial  corporate  junk  food,  buy  local  fresh  food  and  hire  cook  who  will  prepare  it  at  school,  NOT A ROCKET SCIENCE.[/b]

And  if  you  need budget/cost  comparison  and  evaluation  ask  French  and  others  who  figured  it  long  ago  that  it  is less  expensie  to  serve  local  fresh  food  and  also  long  term  to  have  healthy  citizens  who  know  and  buy  real  food  and  are  used  to it.

The  pronlem  is  that  we  support  industrially  produced  nutriend  devoid  cardboapd  tasting  foods   that  is  cheaply  producesd   by  automation  which  removes  work  places  and   benefits  few   but  deprawes  many.

BAD  MATH!

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You have several fallacies in your argument.

It has been consistently shown hat local farm to table food is MORE expensive than the large mass produced foods.  The problem is that there are many fixed costs including licensing, regulations, audits, health & safety that get factored across the products.  The most you produce, the lower the overhead per unit is.  Small, locally produced products have less output to factor the fixed costs across and end up with higher overhead.  You can get a dozen mass produced eggs for sometimes 20-50% the cost of local farmed eggs, for example.

Second, you seem to think that buying less corporate food, buying local food, and hiring cooks to cook it is cheaper.  It isn't.  The mass produced foods are designed to be heated/reheated rather than cooked.  There are many schools across the US that have no kitchens or very limited kitchens without a lot of equipment to cook.  Additionally, cooks are far more expensive to hire than many kitchen workers.  Additionally, nationwide there are many school districts that are struggling to provide adequate supplies for actual education, including books, writing materials, computers, and qualified teachers to teach them and you expect these school districts to find MORE money to provide food?

Additionally, in some parts of the country, the availability of local farms is far lower.  Plus, you often cannot guarantee the output volume from local farms to guarantee the volume of food that locally source farms can provide.  I remember a restaurant that I used to go to in Pennsylvania that cooked food from locally source farms.  Some weeks, the produce was plentiful and the meals were great.  But many weeks, the food was limited in what was provided and the restaurant had to have alternative sources to guarantee that they could stay in business and have food for all of their patrons every day the restaurant was open.  Now, this was a small restaurant that had seating for about 50 people or so.  Imagine trying to scale that to mid-sized 
PP you obviously come from privilege.  You are probably from Montgomery County, Fairfax County or some similarly privilege community.  The school programs and meal programs need to be able to fit all public schools across the nation and having a large scale.  Howard County is small and  serves about 57K students.  I can't see that a school system like Montgomery County, with 163K students being able to feed all students from locally sourced farms 5 days a week.  You really think that locally source MD farms can produce enough to supply 205 schools enough food to make 163K meals twice per day?  That's a lot to expect from local farms.  [/quote]

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