<description>&lt;p&gt;74 percent. That’s how much fewer greenhouse gas emissions schools emit into the environment when they implement sustainable lunch menus–like Meatless Mondays. From serving culturally relevant food to buying from local farms, nutrition leaders across the U.S. are reimagining what school lunch can do for their communities. In this final episode, reporter Jessica Terrell explores how school nutrition programs are innovating and learning what it takes to make lasting, large-scale change to the National School Lunch Program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This episode includes an annotated transcript with links to sources used in the reporting. This podcast was created by editors at The Counter and produced by LWC Studios. It is made possible by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Counter's 6-year archive of award-winning food journalism remains accessible to the public at &lt;a href="http://thecounter.org/" target="_blank"&gt;thecounter.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; </description>

Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch

[email protected] (Kori Doran, Emma Forbes, Erica Huang, Anne Lim, Michelle Baker, Juleyka Lantigua, Kate Gallagher, Jessica Terrell, Paulina Velasco)

"We Created This System in the First Place"

MAR 15, 202337 MIN
Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch

"We Created This System in the First Place"

MAR 15, 202337 MIN

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74 percent. That’s how much fewer greenhouse gas emissions schools emit into the environment when they implement sustainable lunch menus–like Meatless Mondays. From serving culturally relevant food to buying from local farms, nutrition leaders across the U.S. are reimagining what school lunch can do for their communities. In this final episode, reporter Jessica Terrell explores how school nutrition programs are innovating and learning what it takes to make lasting, large-scale change to the National School Lunch Program.

This episode includes an annotated transcript with links to sources used in the reporting. This podcast was created by editors at The Counter and produced by LWC Studios. It is made possible by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Counter's 6-year archive of award-winning food journalism remains accessible to the public at thecounter.org.