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<p>FYI, the school meals program was originally instituted sometime after WWII after a government study found one of the key reasons for around 25% of draft-age men being rejected(4-F) for military service in that war because they failed to meet minimum height, weight, and health standards was due to childhood malnutrition. </p>
<p>While it later became associated with social justice, the initial motivation was to ensure a larger pool of draft-age healthy young men for military service in case there was another war.</p>