Fed Up With Lunch Waste

Don Behm:

"They never eat them all," Aubrey said, referring to chicken nuggets left on the trays of first-, second- and third-graders.

The pair saw only a small portion of a nationwide pile of school lunch waste.

Each year, about $600 million in food served by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program is thrown away by students, the department's Economic Research Service estimates in a report. That amounts to 12% of the food they are served.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 17, 2005 6:08 PM
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