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Article: Group urges schools to drop hot dogs from lunch menus
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 16, 2008
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The hot dog wars have begun.
Hot dogs, corn dogs, pepperoni pizza and other meals featuring
processed meat are a staple of school lunches. But now -- just in
time for National School Lunch week -- a vegetarian-affliliated
group has launched a campaign to get meat out of school cafeterias.
Alarmed by some research that indicates processed meats can lead
to an increased risk for colon cancer in adulthood, The Cancer
Project has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop
distributing hot dogs and other processed meats to schoolchildren.
The USDA oversees the federal school lunch program, which provides
free and reduced-price breakfasts and lunches to low-income students
across the ...