Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Rules for School Lunches

Students lined up for lunch at a middle school in Utah last year. The Trump administration announced on Thursday its final plans to roll back some Obama-era school lunch rules. Credit: Laura Seit, The Deseret News, via Associated Press

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is not shy about sharing his taste for chocolate milk.

“I wouldn’t be as big as I am today without chocolate milk,” Mr. Perdue told reporters in May 2017, while discussing his plan to relax Obama-era school lunch rules. It was one of his first days on the job.

This week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced its final plans to lower nutrition standards for grains, flavored milks and sodium in school cafeterias that were part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and that Michelle Obama, the former first lady, had advocated.

View the complete December 8 article by Julia Jacobs on The New York Times website here.