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School lunch politics, the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program, Susan Levine

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-241) and index

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School lunch politics

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Susan Levine

the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program

Introduction. The politics of lunch -- 1. A diet for Americans -- The search for a scientific diet -- A diet for Americans -- Nutrition and malnutrition -- School lunch as public policy -- 2. Welfare for farmers and children -- School lunches for hungry children -- Eating the surplus -- The institutionalization of school lunch -- 3. Nutrition standards and standard diets -- School lunch standards -- Nutrition in the national defense -- Eating democracy -- 4. A national school lunch program -- Agriculture or education? -- The liberal compromise -- Discrimination and segregation -- 5. Ideals and realities in the lunchroom -- Nutrition and surplus commodities -- Nutrition and the food service industry -- The limits of the lunchroom -- 6. No free lunch -- Discovering hunger in America -- Agriculture or welfare? -- Food and the poverty line -- 7. A right to lunch -- The free lunch mandate -- The women's campaign -- School lunch and civil rights -- Eligibility standards and the right to lunch -- 8. Let them eat ketchup -- Who pays for free lunch? -- Combo meals and nutrition standards -- Ketchup and other vegetables -- Epilogue. Fast food and poor children