Fed Up With Lunch Analysis

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This essay will describe how Sarah Wu’s book, Fed up with Lunch, discusses the horrendous problem outcomes found inside of a lunch system in a large Elementary School in
Chicago that may include the true time that is given to eat the lunch, the unexpected nutrition found inside of every dish given, as well as the truth of keeping all the nutritional facts away from the public.
Looking at the statuses of each school around the nation, it can clearly be stated that each school is different, however looking towards the fact that some schools lie on the same district, county, or even city can state the point that those schools have a significantly common method of running their institutions, and this one school could be the most significantly different
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On a regular basis, the average normal amount of time that a school should give students during lunchtime could vary from 30 to a full period of 45 minutes to enjoy a full meal as well as to consider it as a study break to socialize with fellow classmates, in this case nothing was possible because in the book, the author stated all about how she has seen it with her own eyes, the way that her students only have 20 minutes of lunch which included the time that they all had to wait in line for it, the amount of time in line throughout
Andon 2 took most of the lunchtime and the reasoning on the way that they didn’t even get a chance of touching their side orders by her quote; “the school where I work at only allows twenty minutes for lunch, including lining up time. I know it had to be shocking for the students who just started school to learn that there was no time to eat. They sat down with their food and suddenly it was time to clean up” (Wu 23). Sarah Wu’s testimony against this statement leads us to believe that what she experienced and thought that it wasn’t suitable was all true due to her own experimental perspective towards it, she herself believed that it would take someone like her, as an adult, to
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The authors actions and motivation has caused a series of effects as well as to the blaming of the department chair USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) that was in control with the orders of the school, instead of the education department, for all the miss have that is not taking necessary actions to show the public about the sort of nutrition that they are serving to the students, which makes up the believe to kick out the USDA chair from the school system since it has nothing to do with the lunch program to allow that space for the Department of Education, as many from the public have agreed to the point; “some have said that maybe the USDA should get out of the business of school lunches and let the Department of Education run the show”

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