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47 J.L. & Educ. 177 (2018)
Renewing the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act and Strengthening the Farm to School Program

handle is hein.journals/jle47 and id is 179 raw text is: Renewing the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act and Strengthening the Farm to School Program I. INTRODUCTION During the Great Depression in the 1930s, American farmers experienced vast surpluses of agricultural goods due to skyrocketing unemployment rates.' Despite these surpluses, American consumers struggled to afford food and malnutrition became an increasingly serious issue. This concern was particularly serious for children as they required proper nutrition to develop in a healthy manner.2 The federal government attempted to remedy these two prevailing issues and passed legislation to provide funding to schools to allow them to purchase surplus agriculture from farmers desperate for markets.3 The program was so successful, President Truman signed the National School Lunch Act in 1946 to continue and strengthen the program.' Now, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) reaches more than 30 million children every day.' Though the aim of the program has remained the same (providing schoolchildren with affordable, nutritious lunches), the manner in which food is grown, processed, and served has changed drastically since the inception of the NSLP. Family farms, once a staple of the American agricultural economy, are nearly extinct now. Large industrial-style operations that can operate with less expense and 1. Robert Frank and Ben Bernanke, Principles of Macroeconomics (3rd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. p. 98. (2007). 2. Gordon W. Gunderson, Early Federal Aid National School Lunch Program, available at https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/NSLP-Program%20History.pdf. 3. Douglas R. Hurt, Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century, available at http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgilviewcontent.cgi?article=10781&context=annals-of-iowa (2002). 4. Gordon W. Gunderson, Early Federal Aid National School Lunch Program, available at https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/history_4. 5. USDA Fact Sheet, Farm to School Program, available at https://fns- prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/f2s/ResearchShows.pdf (2016). 177

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