Title: Ketchup as a vegetable - Wikipedia
Headings: Ketchup as a vegetable
Ketchup as a vegetable
Contents
Summary
Legislative history
National School Lunch Act
Child Nutrition Act
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981
Food and Nutrition Service proposed regulations
Overall goals
Section I: removing red tape in record keeping & streamlining administration
Section II: meal crediting
School choice in crediting food alternates: pickle relish as a vegetable
Quantity reductions
Reaction
Ketchup
Changes in income eligibility
Diluting nutrition
Results
Similar efforts
See also
References

Content: According to New York Times reporter Benjamin Weinraub, "the opposition had a Dickensian field day of outrage and mockery that contrasted school children's shrinking meal subsidies with the Pentagon generals' groaning board of budget increases." Legislative history
The Food and Nutrition Service proposed regulations had roots in four previous pieces of legislation: the National School Lunch Act of 1946, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980, and the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981. National School Lunch Act
The National School Lunch Act of 1946 established the nonprofit National School Lunch Program to ensure the health and well-being of American children and increase the domestic consumption of agricultural products and commodities. Under Section II of the National School Lunch Act, eligible students at all participating schools gained access to free or reduced-cost school lunches. Served lunches had to meet minimum nutrition requirements as stated in Section 9a, and those continue to be set by the Secretary of Agriculture to this day. As the 1981 Food and Nutrition Service regulations later explained, while no formal requirement existed requiring that school lunches provide a specific percentage of daily nutrients, it had come to be expected that meals would generally provide one third of daily Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA). Child Nutrition Act
The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 further enhanced and strengthened the National School Lunch Program by extending the Special Milk Program, piloting a breakfast program, and adding support for non-food items such as equipment and additional staff. In addition, the act centralized the management and ongoing administration of the School Lunch Program to the US Department of Agriculture . Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980
Within its broad goal to "implement the reconciliation requirements provided for in the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for the fiscal year 1981", the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980 amended both the National School Lunch Act of 1946 and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 by cutting funding for the Federal Milk Program, establishing ceiling rates for grants on nutrition, and reducing provisions to specific, qualified institutions.