{"id":3307,"date":"2016-03-17T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2016-03-17T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:12:08","slug":"why-are-farmers-telling-kids-what-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-are-farmers-telling-kids-what-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Farmers Telling Kids What to Eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3308\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3308\" data-attachment-id=\"3308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-are-farmers-telling-kids-what-to-eat\/nara-school-lunch-1944\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1410\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NARA School Lunch 1944\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: National Archives and Records Administration&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-218x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-744x1024.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-3308\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-744x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Source: National Archives and Records Administration\" width=\"493\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944-768x1058.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NARA-School-Lunch-1944.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Archives and Records Administration<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The law governing America\u2019s school lunches is up for renewal this year, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture.senate.gov\/committee-print-child-nutrition-markup\" target=\"_blank\">210-page draft bill<\/a> now in play took more than a year to negotiate. The final result is a m\u00e9lange of provisions attempting to satisfy competing interests. When Pat Roberts, the Republican senator from Kansas who chairs the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, trumpeted the bill in late January, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture.senate.gov\/hearings\/committee-print-improving-child-nutrition-integrity-and-access-act-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\">he told the committee<\/a> that its pages \u201ccontain critical programs of importance for Kansas and to every state \u2014 our farmers, our ranchers, our growers, and our friends and neighbors that need help including, of course, hungry children.\u201d\u00a0Note who comes last&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/agenda\/story\/2016\/03\/farm-bill-agriculture-school-lunch-food-policy-000069\">Read more at Politico<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law governing America\u2019s school lunches is up for renewal this year, and the 210-page draft bill now in play took more than a year to negotiate. The final result is a m\u00e9lange of provisions attempting to satisfy competing interests. When Pat Roberts, the Republican senator from Kansas who chairs the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","tag-politico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Rl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}