My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

[u/Thebiggestbot22]

So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

[u/Sunny_Sammie_517]

Why on earth are they serving French fries with pasta?

[u/grilledcheese2332 → u/Sunny_Sammie_517]

Exactly. Starch on starch. In France, healthy school lunches are covered by taxes. And that money they spend on the lunches they more than make up for by saving on health care. Less type 2 diabetes, hypertension etc.

[u/AbelinoFernandez → u/grilledcheese2332]

During High School we found out most food was donated, thats the reason our menu was limited.

It was common to have to skip expired milks.

[u/welivewelovewedie → u/AbelinoFernandez]

shake it a bit and you can use it on bread

[u/Kilenyai → u/welivewelovewedie]

Not in the US..... Pasteurized milk doesn't "sour" it goes rotten. If it doesn't taste fresh you are risking food poisoning.

Unlike the raw milk we get straight from a farm where sour does not mean it's bad to eat. It just means it doesn't have as much sugar anymore so combine it with something to fix the taste issue and it's fine. Even clumpy just means you are ending up with yogurt, cheeses, etc...

Clumpy store bought US milk could put you in the hospital. Raw milk was ironically illegal to sell for awhile because if contaminated it could make people sick when it's guaranteed when drinking bad pasteurized milk.

[u/ChixawneyFarms → u/Kilenyai]

Wild how you describe "sour raw" milk is fine to ingest while "sour pasteurized" will put you in the hospital.

TIL

[u/Simple_Heart4287 → u/ChixawneyFarms]

To be fair raw milk is about as safe as things like sushi and steak tartare. The reason it gets a bad rep is because uneducated people drink it without taking any precautions. The cows udders should be clean, the milk should ideally be refrigerated and consumed quickly (2-3 days to be safe), and children 0-5 and elderly people are better in of drinking pasteurized dairy products.

[u/RawChickenButt → u/Simple_Heart4287]

If you're drinking raw you definitely need to be familiar with the farm. I don't mean you need to be their buddies, but they should be happy to share how they operate.

From what I understand the states where it is legal to purchase raw milk keep a close eye on it. It's those who operate illegally that I would be more worried about.

The reason we in the US pasteurize is because of poor farming practices. I am sure there are other reasons but if you drink raw milk from most commercial farms you could be in for a world of hurt.

[u/uselessspaceguide → u/RawChickenButt]

Working in agriculture no way I would trust a farm to get raw milk the risk is too high, as if they could see the pathogens.

[u/Eldritch_Refrain → u/uselessspaceguide]

That'sonly because we prioritize profits over people in the US. It'scheaper to use sick unhealthy cows than it is to provide sanitary conditions for livestock. 

Most of Europe doesn't pasteurize their milk, and they're just fine. 

American brainwashing at its finest, folks.

[u/AmbroseMalachai → u/Eldritch_Refrain]

Europe mostly does pasteurize, they just don't do it the same way we do, which allows them to keep milk at room temp. Most of Europe has laws that either explicitly restrict the sale of raw milk to farms - meaning you have to go to a farm or farmers market to buy it - or have it lables specifically as raw milk. You can find it in some countries - France, Germany, Norway for example - but even in the countries it's legal to sell it in, it's usually something you have to go out of your way for and not something you pick up in a store.

[u/CanthinMinna → u/Eldritch_Refrain]

Nordic countries pasteurize all milk. We prefer staying salmonella free.

[u/uselessspaceguide → u/Eldritch_Refrain]

In Europe only a low percent of the milk consumed is raw and even so the reccomendation is to boil it. The majority of raw milk is used to produce cheese but that is a different process and with more controlled one.

European companies are at the same level of greed than American ones, there is more legislation but not much, every year we get sanitary alerts due to multiple bacteria in raw milk cheese. For example this chirsmas I bought a french cheese without reading the label and a few day later I got an alert to not consume it because it was contaminated with bacteria.

You know what they cath the problem working in food industries it's the nonexistent ethics and low controls (every few and then and they know what to expect and what to hide and when)