The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Wednesday, sets a 10-year deadline for the change to take place.
A new law will make California the first state to phase some ultraprocessed food out of school meals.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday that prohibits public schools from serving children what it describes as “ultraprocessed foods of concern” in breakfasts or lunches. The policy sets a 10-year deadline for the change to take place.
It defines such foods as those that pose the greatest risks to consumers based on scientific evidence of adverse health outcomes, and it directs the state Public Health Department to determine which particular products meet the definition by June 2028.
10 year deadline
As an extremely experienced former K12 student/s , I can tell you this promise is worth absolutely jack shit.
My burning fury for the Democratic party pretending to care about its constituency started with Michelle Obama nuking my school lunch.
Although to be fair, a rotting prison meal is still better than the Republican alternative of no food at all.
Another victory for that entity called “Center for Science in the Public Interest” aka food police.
The term ultra processed us pretty controversial unless they explicitly define it in this legislation. A PB & J is considered ultra processed even if you make the peanut butter, the jam, and the bread yourself because those ingredients have been processed heavily from their natural state.
Edit:
It defines such foods as those that pose the greatest risks to consumers based on scientific evidence of adverse health outcomes, and it directs the state Public Health Department to determine which particular products meet the definition by June 2028.
Ah ok that makes sense.
California and Minnesota getting good stuff done while the rest of us are lagging further behind.
Love my state
Let’s see how the magat morons try to spin this as being un-american and biased…
“it’s gunna kill jobs” “it’ll trample my right to profit off slowly killing others”
Probably the same way the did when Michelle Obama tried the first time.
didnt michelle obama already do this? i thought it was all figured out by now.
All she did was get rid of the high sugary stuff mostly.
Lies, she got rid of everything except the high sugary stuff aside from drinks in vending machines.
We lost basically everything with a Scoville unit over 10 in exchange for 35g sugar per serving chocolate milk and aspartame bullcrappary in the vending machines.
Plus the portion sizes dropped anywhere from 10-40% depending on the meal.
I even lost the fresh fruit bar for canned peaches.
It has been almost 2 decades and I still want revenge for my KIA flamin hot funyuns.
At my school, they got rid of any kind of regular soda and regular Gatorade. Diet only and the snacks had to be the healthier kind like Baked Lays. We still had a fruit bar though so you could have something like peaches or a banana but they still had fucking pop tarts in the morning though lol.
So no more rectangular “pizza?” We used to have brownies that smelled like kelp too.
The rectangular pizza is not actually that processed. It comes from a US Department of Agriculture recipe and you can make it at home using common grocery store ingredients, although the USDA recipe is intended to make 100 servings.
The recipe does call for something called “pourable pizza dough” but there’s a recipe for that too and it’s basically just very thick pancake batter.
Edit: https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/schoollunchcheesepizza
My doc just recommended a book, Ultraprocessed People. Guessing I am about to have much stronger feelings on the topic as I learn more about it.
:sad mr beast noises:
i thought the issue was that upf don’t have a standard definition… to be clear, for it, but from my last readings there’s not real definition. (looks at hella loose organic definitions)
The article addresses this. The legislation addresses it in even more detail.
Does it?
It defines such foods as those that pose the greatest risks to consumers based on scientific evidence of adverse health outcomes, and it directs the state Public Health Department to determine which particular products meet the definition by June 2028.
Why not just say “unhealthy food” rather than pretending that “ultra processed food” means anything useful?
The question remains: what counts as “ultra-processed”? America is a country where ketchup counts as vegetable for school meals. Can you imagine them serving normal, freshly cooked and healthy food instead?
Ketchup is not considered a vegetable in America. That is a myth. Some random school official essentially made the equivalent of a shit post (said something stupid in a meeting with no serious intent) and local papers ran with it.
Myth? No serious intent?
Reporting on the proposed directive, Newsweek magazine illustrated its story with a bottle of ketchup captioned “now a vegetable.” The proposal was criticized by nutritionists and Democratic politicians who staged photo ops where they dined on nutrition-poor meals that conformed to the new lax standards. Compounding this outrage, the same day that the USDA announced the cost-cutting proposal for school lunches, the White House purchased $209,508 worth of new china and place settings embossed in gold with the presidential seal.
