Congressional declaration of purpose
United States Code
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- 2024Bracewell v. State Dept. of Public Health CA3 Cal. Ct. App.
- 2019Smith v. Tipton Cnty. Bd. of Educ. 6th Cir.
- 2019Physicians Com. for Responsible etc. v. L.A. Unified School Dist. Cal. Ct. App.
- 2012Argus Leader Media v. United States Department of Agriculture D.S.D.
- 1997Hunt v. St. Peter School W.D. Mo.
- 1996Noyola v. Board of Education Ill. App. Ct.
- 1995Horner v. Kentucky High School Athletic Association 2d Cir.
- 1994Horner v. Kentucky High School Athletic Ass'n 6th Cir.
- 1993Board of Education v. Leininger N.D. Ill.
- 1992Big Country Foods, Inc. v. Board of Education of the Anchorage School District 9th Cir.
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In recognition of the demonstrated relationship between food and good nutrition and the capacity of children to develop and learn, based on the years of cumulative successful experience under the national school lunch program with its significant contributions in the field of applied nutrition research, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress that these efforts shall be extended, expanded, and strengthened under the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture as a measure to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children, and to encourage the domestic consumption of agricultural and other foods, by assisting States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to meet more effectively the nutritional needs of our children. (Source: (Pub. L. 89–642, § 2, Oct. 11, 1966, 80 Stat. 885.))