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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss first explored this dark side of processed food production in his 2013 book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. While promoti...

https://civileats.com/2021/04/09/michael-moss-on-how-big-food-gets-us-hooked/

Editor’s note: This is a developing story; we will update this article as the situation changes. June 10, 2020 update: USDA extended another waiver allowing local feeding programs to serve meal...

https://civileats.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-is-closing-schools-heres-what-it-means-for-millions-of-kids-who-rely-on-school-meals/

When officials at Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley West school district made the news this week for threatening that families with unpaid school meal debt could have their children taken from them...

https://civileats.com/2019/07/26/will-a-new-federal-law-finally-put-an-end-to-school-lunch-shaming/

When Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last December that his agency was weakening three school nutrition standards, he justified the move by raising the troubling specter of overflowi...

https://civileats.com/2019/05/02/advocates-said-school-nutrition-rollbacks-were-unnecessary-a-new-usda-study-backs-them-up/

April 14, 2020 update: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump Administration broke the law when it rolled back school nutrition standards, as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Scien...

https://civileats.com/2019/04/05/states-sue-trump-administration-over-school-nutrition-roll-backs/

When New Mexico passed the first comprehensive law banning lunch shaming last April, the state made visible what anti-hunger advocates, school food professionals, and lower-income families have ...

https://civileats.com/2017/11/07/kids-with-school-lunch-debt-still-face-lunch-shaming-despite-outrage/

Yesterday, the New York City department of education announced that all 1.1 million of the city’s public school students will be offered free lunch starting this school year, regardless of th...

https://civileats.com/2017/09/07/nyc-to-offer-free-lunch-for-all-students/

Seven years ago, in the first season of his television show Food Revolution, chef Jamie Oliver visited an elementary school classroom in West Virginia to gauge first-graders’ familiarity with f...

https://civileats.com/2017/08/16/a-soil-app-aims-to-get-kids-deep-into-dirt/

Yesterday, many media outlets reported on a bill introduced in Congress which, if enacted, would allegedly ban “lunch shaming,” i.e., practices in the cafeteria that single out children with ...

https://civileats.com/2017/05/10/lunch-shaming-still-on-school-menus-even-after-proposed-law/

Yesterday, newly appointed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue traveled to an elementary school in Virginia to announce an “easing” of the Obama-era school food nutrition standards pertaining ...

https://civileats.com/2017/05/02/school-meal-standards-just-got-weaker-but-not-as-much-as-you-think/