Comments on: Farmer Friendly Zone: Better School Food = More Local Farms http://civileats.com/2010/03/23/farmer-friendly-zone-better-school-food-more-local-farms/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Melissa Waldron Lehner http://civileats.com/2010/03/23/farmer-friendly-zone-better-school-food-more-local-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-5896 Melissa Waldron Lehner Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:30:34 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=7156#comment-5896 Thank you for that correction, Debra. Important point. Thank you for that correction, Debra. Important point.

]]> By: Debra Eschmeyer http://civileats.com/2010/03/23/farmer-friendly-zone-better-school-food-more-local-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-5884 Debra Eschmeyer Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:16:56 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=7156#comment-5884 Just a minor correction to this calculation: "But $1 billion, it turns out, really only boils down to an extra twenty cents per school meal." The problem with that calculation is that even if we did have an extra $1 billion per year, it isn't strictly for school lunch so your analysis is wrong. The Child Nutrition Act includes school breakfast, WIC, Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Care Feeding Program, etc. so you aren't just spreading that figurative 1 billion over 31.5 million children for one meal a day. Just a minor correction to this calculation: “But $1 billion, it turns out, really only boils down to an extra twenty cents per school meal.”

The problem with that calculation is that even if we did have an extra $1 billion per year, it isn’t strictly for school lunch so your analysis is wrong. The Child Nutrition Act includes school breakfast, WIC, Summer Food Service Program, Child and Adult Care Feeding Program, etc. so you aren’t just spreading that figurative 1 billion over 31.5 million children for one meal a day.

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