*I'm* arguing the need for healthy foods. We sometimes forget that our natural food is raw whatever-we-can-scavenge. Be it the 3 day old guts of a wildebeest some pack animal killed, or rotted bananas and leaves from whatever tree we were squatting in while the real predators were waiting below.
The "experts" opinions of what constitutes a healthy diet changes with the wind, and is about as worth listening to.
Where in the Constitution does it give the government the power to "accomplish change" in the way children eat? First the government whines to the public about the need to ensure that every child has a hot meal. Then, once the government is collecting the money from the people, it starts trying to dictate what that hot meal will be. Not according to what each parent wants for his/her child, but according to what government experts think people should eat.

Worse, the government, through its proxy the media, promoted shoving women into the workforce, so that now every female can enjoy pursuing her career... even if that "career" is flipping burgers at McDonald's because the economy, predictably, adjusted to the doubling of the available workforce, and now both parents have to work to provide for the family.
Along with the assault on the family, again instigated by the government through their proxy the media, no-fault easy divorce, removal of the stigma of out-of-wedlock births, belittling of the traditional American, Andy-in-Mayberry/Leave-It-To_Beaver household (the kind I and millions of others grew up in), the government increased its welfare system, encouraging dependence, and not until decades later, with millions suckered in, did the powers that be feel comfortable beginning to dictate to the now prostrate public.

The government has no business dictating what food a school serves or what food a child eats. But there are too darn few parents left with the moral courage to tell the government to go to hell.