paul@phs.UUCP (Paul C. Dolber) (09/21/84)
Every now and again I see something in net news that I know to be flagrantly wrong, but can never find proof of the wrongness. Well, while looking for something else, I finally rediscovered the passage below, re: someone's bringing up a few weeks ago, I believe in this newsgroup, the "Reagan administration wants to substitute ketchup for vegetables in school lunches" tripe: From National Review, Dec 25, 1981, p. 1521: "The Washington Post's news writers and columnists had been waging an uproarious food fight with the Reagan Administration over the lunches served in the nation's school cafeterias... Then some killjoy Post editorial writer decided to look into the actual facts about the Administration's school-lunch proposals, and found that the critics were telling some whoppers. For example, it was school districts with Oriental pupils, not budget-cutters in Washington, that had asked if bean curd (tofu) could be counted toward the protein minimum... What's more, the 'notion of substituting ketchup for vegetables *never appeared in the proposals at all*. It was a horrible possibility conjured up by nutrition advocacy groups... as something that state agencies might do under color of a new authority to increase menu variety.' In reality, the editorial sensibly concluded, giving states some leeway is likely to make lunches beter, not worse." Let's put that canard to rest permanently, shall we? Regards, Paul Dolber @ DUMC (...duke!phs!paul).