The popular wisdom atthe time was if a school stopped serving these empty-calorie foods, thecafeteria would lose money and the district wouldn't be able to make up for the gap in federal funding with those profits.
Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees atthe Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported.
Kevin Morgan, a professor at Cardiff University and the author of TheSchool Food Revolution, a book about the supply chain behind cafeteria food, said the supply network was complex and should be better regulated.