Since I have roots in Idaho — also known as Spud Country — I find the latest Food Police target a particularly infuriating affront to freedom and this country’s agricultural history. At least the potato lobby is fighting back.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to eliminate the “white potato”—defined as any variety but the sweet potato—from federally subsidized school breakfasts and to limit them sharply at lunch.
Messing with a stalwart like the spud doesn’t go well with the potato industry, school cafeteria directors and legislators from potato-growing regions. They’re fighting to see that in schools, no potato is left behind.
As part of the effort, spud sellers are promoting potatoes as a “true gateway vegetable” that could lead kids to broccoli.
If the Food Police don’t want their kids to eat potatoes, fine by me. Eat whatever you want. But stay out of my business.
