In the article found here, the dependency on the school lunch system by underprivileged children is diagrammed out, and touches on several topics brought up previously. The idea that people who come here and work hard to earn basic living conditions have to force their children to rely off of a highly processed and very unhealthy diet. In the documentary The Harvest, the mother of the sixteen year old boy talked about how she couldn't afford the vegetables that she was picking once they got on the shelves. Most of the children in that documentary didn't even regularly go to school, so they wouldn't even have the benefit of getting free or reduced rate lunches because they would be too busy picking crops.
Also the article talked about how parents would go hungry in order to feed their family while they were going through rough financial patches. The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon, also talks on how parents would sacrifice their own health to help their children. Like how that article made me doubt the legitimacy of the statement. I think that these people are actually trying to preserve their observed social standing.
Also the article talked about how parents would go hungry in order to feed their family while they were going through rough financial patches. The Double Binds of Getting Food among the Poor in Rural Oregon, also talks on how parents would sacrifice their own health to help their children. Like how that article made me doubt the legitimacy of the statement. I think that these people are actually trying to preserve their observed social standing.