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Sincere question: Where would you rather have that money spent, if not to provide healthy food to school children?

Better infrastructure (so that people don’t have trouble getting to grocery stores)? Better education (e.g. pay teachers more so public schools can attract knowledgeable people instead mostly people who can’t find other jobs)? There are many nice things you can fund, but very few of us want to pay more from our own pockets, either directly in taxes or indirectly in inflation.

It's hard to argue with this stance. What you're saying seems reasonable, although it's clearly a solution that wouldn't pay off immediately.

But if the goal is to get better nutrition to children more assuredly, doesn't the direct solution make more sense? Just give the children better nutrition for free in the place they're forced to go to each day.

Maybe your mindset is geared towards solving more over-arching problems than that. And I completely agree with infrastructure and (especially) higher pay for teachers to increase the quality of education. I'm just musing out loud.

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