This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school shedding light
onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools. The book takes readers inside schools
through the history of school food programs in the United States and England and into the
policy terrain that makes school lunch difficult to change. Through diverse case studies-hungry
linebackers pink slime English reality television and policy making pizza as a vegetable
lunch shaming and more-chapters provide detailed analysis of rhetorical tactics arguments
over and policy for school feeding. The book concludes with a progressive vision of school
food that is healthy pleasurable educative shame-free and most importantly free for all
students just like the rest of school.
