LEADER 04455nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457629503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-33987-0 010 $a9786613339874 010 $a1-4008-4148-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400841486 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065921 035 $a(EBL)803581 035 $a(OCoLC)770612204 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11458611 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10614494 035 $a(PQKB)10402144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC803581 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43411 035 $a(DE-B1597)453615 035 $a(OCoLC)979577854 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400841486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL803581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL333987 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065921 100 $a20070713d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSchool lunch politics$b[electronic resource] $ethe surprising history of America's favorite welfare program /$fSusan Levine 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05088-0 311 $a0-691-14619-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations and Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION. The Politics of Lunch --$tCHAPTER 1. A Diet for Americans --$tCHAPTER 2. Welfare for Farmers and Children --$tCHAPTER 3. Nutrition Standards and Standard Diets --$tCHAPTER 4. A National School Lunch Program --$tCHAPTER 5. Ideals and Realities in the Lunchroom --$tCHAPTER 6. No Free Lunch --$tCHAPTER 7. A Right to Lunch --$tCHAPTER 8. Let Them Eat Ketchup --$tEPILOGUE. Fast Food and Poor Children --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aWhether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science, through the establishment of the National School Lunch Program in 1946, to the transformation of school meals into a poverty program during the 1970's and 1980's. Susan Levine investigates the politics and culture of food; most specifically, who decides what American children should be eating, what policies develop from those decisions, and how these policies might be better implemented. Even now, the school lunch program remains problematic, a juggling act between modern beliefs about food, nutrition science, and public welfare. Levine points to the program menus' dependence on agricultural surplus commodities more than on children's nutritional needs, and she discusses the political policy barriers that have limited the number of children receiving meals and which children were served. But she also shows why the school lunch program has outlasted almost every other twentieth-century federal welfare initiative. In the midst of privatization, federal budget cuts, and suspect nutritional guidelines where even ketchup might be categorized as a vegetable, the program remains popular and feeds children who would otherwise go hungry. As politicians and the media talk about a national obesity epidemic, School Lunch Politics is a timely arrival to the food policy debates shaping American health, welfare, and equality. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. 410 0$aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America. 606 $aNational school lunch program 606 $aSchool children$xFood$zUnited States 606 $aChildren$xNutrition$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational school lunch program. 615 0$aSchool children$xFood 615 0$aChildren$xNutrition 676 $a371.7/16 700 $aLevine$b Susan$f1947-$01042300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457629503321 996 $aSchool lunch politics$92466437 997 $aUNINA