Summer Lunch Program has room to grow
June 4th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda
The state will serve three hundred thousand kids a healthy lunch this summer, but the needs of as many as eight hundred thousand more will go unmet. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam says farmers can provide the food. The problem is getting it to people who need it.
“And so this is an imminently solvable issue in our state and in our country. The abundance of agriculture crates fruits and vegetables that everyone’s mother would be proud to have you eat more of, and we waste a high percentage of it because as a society, we ‘ve become fairly picky” says Putnam.
The state has about 36 hundred distribution points. It would need at least twice that many to meet the needs of those in the school lunch program. The food being distributed is donated by farmers and in many cases the fruits and vegetables have small blemishes that keep them from going to supermarkets.
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