{"id":19685,"date":"2022-07-29T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=19685"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:46:08","slug":"california-budget-includes-money-for-plant-based-meals-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/29\/california-budget-includes-money-for-plant-based-meals-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"California Budget Includes Money for Plant-Based Meals in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6461-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6461-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6461.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n<p>At the end of June 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $308 billion state budget for 2022-2023. This budget features a first for any state in the United States \u2013 funding for plant-based school meals in public elementary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebudget.ca.gov\/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">Enacted Budget Summary<\/a>, the budget includes a one-time $100 million allocation \u201cto support local educational agency procurement practices for plant-based or restricted diet meals, to procure California-grown or California-produced, sustainably grown, whole or minimally processed foods including for use in plant-based or restricted diet meals, or to prepare meals fresh onsite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state budget also includes a one-time $600 million apportionment for upgrades to school kitchens and equipment and food service employee training and compensation that will allow the use of more \u201cfresh, minimally processed California-grown foods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read more about vegan and vegetarian meals in schools see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2018issue3\/2018_issue3_elementary_schools.php\">Getting Vegan Foods into Elementary Schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/fsupdate\/fsu20062\/fsu20062_schoollunch.htm\">Adding Vegetarian Options into School Lunch Programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/teen\/high_school_cafeteria.php\">Working for Vegetarian Food in Your High School Cafeteria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD At the end of June 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a $308 billion state budget for 2022-2023. This budget features a first for any state in the United States \u2013 funding for plant-based school meals in public elementary and secondary schools. According to the Enacted Budget Summary, the budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions\/19687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}