School Lunch Politics : : The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program / / Susan Levine.
Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twent...
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Levine, Susan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut School Lunch Politics : The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program / Susan Levine. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2008 1 online resource (272 p.) : 8 halftones. 1 line illus. 6 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Society in Modern America ; 82 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Politics of Lunch -- CHAPTER 1. A Diet for Americans -- CHAPTER 2. Welfare for Farmers and Children -- CHAPTER 3. Nutrition Standards and Standard Diets -- CHAPTER 4. A National School Lunch Program -- CHAPTER 5. Ideals and Realities in the Lunchroom -- CHAPTER 6. No Free Lunch -- CHAPTER 7. A Right to Lunch -- CHAPTER 8. Let Them Eat Ketchup -- EPILOGUE. Fast Food and Poor Children -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science, through the establishment of the National School Lunch Program in 1946, to the transformation of school meals into a poverty program during the 1970s and 1980s. Susan Levine investigates the politics and culture of food; most specifically, who decides what American children should be eating, what policies develop from those decisions, and how these policies might be better implemented. Even now, the school lunch program remains problematic, a juggling act between modern beliefs about food, nutrition science, and public welfare. Levine points to the program menus' dependence on agricultural surplus commodities more than on children's nutritional needs, and she discusses the political policy barriers that have limited the number of children receiving meals and which children were served. But she also shows why the school lunch program has outlasted almost every other twentieth-century federal welfare initiative. In the midst of privatization, federal budget cuts, and suspect nutritional guidelines where even ketchup might be categorized as a vegetable, the program remains popular and feeds children who would otherwise go hungry. As politicians and the media talk about a national obesity epidemic, School Lunch Politics is a timely arrival to the food policy debates shaping American health, welfare, and equality.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Children Nutrition United States. National school lunch program. School children Food United States. HISTORY / United States / 21st Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691146195 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841486 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400841486 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400841486.jpg |
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