The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved funding to offer all students breakfast and lunch at no cost for the 2021-2022 school year regardless of eligibility status, income, need or other defining characteristics. However, the PPS administration notes, “qualifying for free or reduced-price meals may provide your family with additional benefits such as P-EBT funding, reduced rates for sports, and potential free college applications, so please be sure to fill out a free application if you are potentially eligible.”
School Foods
News on meals at PPS
Click through for an update on meals at Princeton Public Schools with the appointment of K. Lee Dixon. From her LinkedIn page: She has been operations manager since Aug 2008 at NutriServe Food Management, the current food service purveyor for Princeton Public Schools. Her previous position was sales and catering manager for Aramark Refreshment Services at the Franklin Institute, June 2005-2007. She graduated from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1994.
Diet and our carbon footprint
#nowweknow From the piece: Beef, goat and sheep production requires more than 20 times more land and generates more than 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions than pulses, a plant that is in the legume family — dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas, lentils — per gram of protein, according to the report….Beef alone is responsible for 41% of livestock greenhouse gas emissions, and that livestock accounts for 14.5% of total global emissions, according to the UN. That’s more than direct emissions from the transportation sector. In the US, beef only accounts for about 3% of the calories in the average US diet, but it uses 43% of US land used for agriculture, according to the report.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/health/beef-environment-resources-report/