Free food! Who knew that food was free?
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
NEW YORK — School lunch menus already have Meatless Mondays and Taco Tuesdays. Now some may get Trade Mitigation Thursdays.
This fall, U.S. school cafeterias are expecting shipments of free food courtesy of President Donald Trump’s trade disputes. The products are coming from the Department of Agriculture, which is giving away the $1.2 billion in foods it’s buying to help farmers hurt by trade negotiations.
A Maryland district is awaiting a truckload of canned kidney beans — one of several “trade mitigation” items schools were offered.