The Problem Is Federally Subsidized School Lunches, Not Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Initiative

The Problem Is Federally Subsidized School Lunches, Not Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Initiative

Some people are grumbling that the First Lady has taken the joy out of school lunches. She’s identified with the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010,” which uses federal funding to coerce schools into providing meals with fewer calories.

But I think this criticism misses the point. The problem is not overweight kids, as one side argues, or politically correct micro-managing, as the other side claims.

Instead, we should be asking the fundamental question about whether...