(3/18/ 14 quick write)
It saddens me to know that when a child is given lunch money to have a well balanced meal to help get through the day, and that money is is either used for a unhealthy "healthy" warmed up mush at school or is used for unhealthy snacks that don't really fill one up. It seems that the only way a child receives a healthy fresh meal is to bring from home and this option is not always at hand. Most families don't have enough time or money to make meals like this daily. So with theses limited options, children are being forced to eat unhealthy or starve. We need to change one way or another or unhealthy rates will not fall.
Due to the fact that get free lunch, I am required by my parents to eat at school or starve. The meals on campus are never in my favor but i have learned to look past taste. Will in the past years i have not had much issue with the food once i stopped thinking about it but if in order for a student to have to ignore the heath issues in school lunches to have full stomach, then there is something wrong and i needs to be changed. Recently i have had a hard time eating at school. Due to my sacrifice of meat because of lent, I given up meat. But what must i eat if all meals are meat based? I have many vegetarian friends and i wonder what do they do? most do bring food from home but many have just fruits and juice. But this isn't enough to fulfill me all day. I have had salad for the last few weeks and i feel terrible. My health is not where it should be.
I used to be proud of having been on the list of students with free lunch. To have a meal before home unlike many other kids. But once looking into what is in these free "meals", I feel more of a guinea pig to "If it doesn't kill them then its okay". So what must we do to end this whole issue?
Thought? Opinion?
I really like this topic that you chose Jessica. After I read that article in the packet Ms. Fletcher gave to us I thought someone finally wrote down what I was thinking about school lunches. They are nowhere close to being healthy; if anything they damage our health. I don’t know if things will change soon but I believe in order for change to act that state governments will have to start giving more money to schools, and ordering that some specific amount to spent on certain healthier meals. If not things will continue to be the same. The schools will buy the cheapest food available which turns out to be the worst one to consume.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I would never consider the school lunches to be healthy. The option that they give you to pick from are all unhealthy foods. You can either get a pizza that has globs of cheese and a napkins worth of grease or you can stand in line and get a pizza that has way to much cheese some nasty chicken and a lot of ranch. I am offered free lunch at school, but I never take advantage of it. I would rather wait till I get out of 5th period and then go home and eat. Because of the mere fact that the food there is totally gross and unhealthy.
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