Since the implementation of Michelle Obama’s “healthy” school lunch program, one area of New Mexico alone has been throwing away up to FIVE TONS of food per week and sending the waste to a farm to be fed to pigs. Schools in Nebraska have even been sending their food to worm farms.
Complaints about school lunches have spread nationwide and the Alexandria Tea Party has established a dedicated website on this issue. Click here and learn more about this and other yucky issues.
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