By Center for Consumer Freedom ——Bio and Archives--July 9, 2010
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[O]n a typical day, only about 16,000 of the 160,000 students buying a school lunch will choose vegan fare, even though it generally costs the same as more traditional foods or about 15 cents more. The poor showing flies in the face of a newly-released study of student lunch preferences conducted in Broward schools by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The national group, which espouses the benefits of a vegan diet, concluded that more than half of students would choose vegan options if they were offered... "There was an initial period where it was popular," said [Director of Food and Nutrition Services Barbara] Leslie. "But now it's not really that popular."Kids say the darndest things, and sometimes they speak volumes with their lunch money.
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