School Lunches From Around The World
School Lunches From Around The World
School lunch has been a contentious issue this year, ever since First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack rolled out their new school lunch initiative last spring.
But the attention on what schools are serving isn’t unique to the States. Scotland’s 9-year-old Martha Payne garnered international headlines for her school lunch blog that chronicled dismal school meals. The blog drew so much attention that local officials ordered her to stop taking pictures of her lunches — a mandate she ultimately successfully repealed.
And over the last couple days, another version of school lunch exposure of sorts has sprouted on Reddit, where users are sharing images of what they’re being served around the world.
The new federal requirements stateside, the first major nutritional school meal overhaul in over 15 years, offer