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Temples of Season by Alex Halbrrstadt.
Shojin, health, spirituality, and sensory pleasure can all exist in a plate.

Forty-one states have no requirements at all for food-service personnel, according to the National Association of State Boards of Education's most recent assessment. And in states that do, like Mississippi, they often are as minimal as a high school diploma or its equivalent.

One Republican strategy to hobble school lunch involves chang. ing an innocuous-sounding proposal called the Community Eligibility Provision. The formula for CEP is complex, but it essentially allows schools in high-poverty areas to provide free meals to all stu-dents.

Missouri— was filled with 200 million pounds of cheese and butter, stacked "like frozen pillars and stretching over acres of gray stone floor," … the USDA purchased millions of pounds of dairy for schools … encouraged dairy farmers to keep on milking. 1986 the government had to created the Whole Herd Buyout, which paid farmers to slaughter the cows. government then bought the beel, which was turned into …

It was pushed through Congress after World War II wil the support of military leaders who wanted to ensure that there would be enough healthy young men to fight the next war and of farmers who were looking for a place to unload their surplus com, milk, and meat. The result was that schools became the dumping ground for the cheap calories our modern agricultural system was designed to overproduce.