You wake up with no time to eat breakfast or pack a lunch ; no problem because school breakfast and lunch is free and nutritious, or so we think. Apparently you'd be better off dipping your chicken nuggets in the toilet for lunch. There have been numerous outbreaks of food illness in school because of school lunches. The lack of cleanliness in lunchrooms is becoming a serious problem. As if that wasn't bad enough, the meat given to the schools are taken from factories with some of the worst grades. Not only are the kitchens the meat is being cooked in unclean but the meat itself is also poor. More money should be funded into the Office of School Food and Nutrition, so that they can buy meat that exceeds government standards. School kitchens have been flagged for roaches and mouse droppings all over. Can you imagine how much of that might have gotten into your food? If the most of extreme measures aren't taken who knows what kind of illness or disease could erupt in school amongst children.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132030&page=1#.UYcLvErAEWe
http://www.opt-osfns.org/schoolfood/public1/default.aspx
I extremely agree with your blog. School lunch is like jail food to me, actually some jail lunch meals look better than school lunch I have seen. Parents send their children to school probably with the thought that school lunch is healthy, but according to the first link you provided, some kitchens in school are not so clean. Filthy kitchens causes bacteria in food. Just like the link, about the bacteria found in spahgetti
ReplyDeleteAnother useful link:
http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/school-lunch-goes-from-bad-to-worse
-Danisha
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DeleteBianca Imani,
ReplyDeleteWhere do you suppose the money for the Office of School and nutrition should come from? With all of the budget cuts taking place in the DOE it seems like it would be difficult to spend more money on food.
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Hello Bianca,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post. What you wrote caught my eye especially, and I want to investigate it further."As if that wasn't bad enough, the meat given to the schools are taken from factories with some of the worst grades. Not only are the kitchens the meat is being cooked in unclean but the meat itself is also poor". I do think that the reason why meat is being cooked in hazardous places is because the government can pay the cheapest amount of money for the workers, meat, etc. The workers will work any kind of wage just to get money because they already have a low grade and they need something to keep them in business (blackmailing). When I was reading this post, I thought of Cheyenne's post.
Here's some evidence that supports my hunch:
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/america’s-most-dangerous-factories/
http://www.hrw.org/news/2005/08/02/meatpackings-human-toll
I have a question:
Is it our responsibility to make sure that these conditions don't exist in our society? Does this cause serious questioning to how our government is run?
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ReplyDeleteIt is a shame that this type of meat is still given to schools. Is the government aware that many parents and students know what is going on behind the scenes of the meat industry? I know that schools get the cheapest meat but why can't it be good quality. School lunch is gross and not very appetizing. It is not beneficial to children. Children are supposed to be provided with nutritional lunch but are getting a type of prison food. Though the USDA is required to send out safe meat according to government rules, there still are problems with it where then there could be a salmonella outbreak. There should be new rules enforced in schools involving the meat used. Will this problem ever end?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nea.org/home/37485.htm
There are thousands of schools that failed food inspections and that is so not okay. Schools are all about safety for the kids that attend the school but someone is slipping somewhere if kids are getting sick because the kitchen isn't doing it's job correctly. According Nea.org, "8,500 schools across the country did not have their kitchens inspected at all in 2008, and another 18,000 schools did not complete the two required yearly inspections". What's going on here? Why aren't the people who're supposed to do inspections not inspecting? "The purpose of the inspection requirement is to ensure that the facilities and workers comply with safety and sanitary requirements — from checking food temperatures to wearing gloves". This are children whose health is being messed with. However, WHY do school kitchens let the place get so vile?? Just because no one's checking on you doesn't mean you just stop doing what you're supposed to do until you land under the microscope again. "USDA officials, however, do not know which schools have had their kitchens inspected and which ones have not. That's because the USDA requires only that the states provide the number of schools that have been inspected, not the schools' names". This explains itself. Obviously a new system needs to be made.
ReplyDeleteWhat should be done when schools don't get inspected? Should they shut down the kitchen and demand an inspection?
Sources: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-12-15-school-lunches-health-inspections_N.htm
http://www.nea.org/home/37485.htm
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