“Under OVS, students must select a fruit or vegetable at each meal and must take at least three items for the meal to qualify as reimbursable.”
Somewhere between 27% and 53% of American school food,
none of which students can legally refuse,
is wasted
Let’s split the difference
and call it 40%
which is exactly the rate
at which Americans en masse
waste food
We pretend to give students nutritious meals
but in reality we give students no choice
but to waste food
so that we can be reimbursed
at a trough of our own
Or, even worse:
In pretending to give students what they need
we feign having no choice
but to give them no choice
when what they really need most
is to learn how to make choices
None of this is about bad food
Instead, it’s all about bad faith
