Regarding the article, “Home-packed school lunches get failing grade”:

If Texas children ate the school lunches portrayed in this article, there would be a bunch of overweight kids.

The first item, 2.5 cups of fruit per school lunch. What! FDA daily guidelines says about 1.5 cups per day (that’s three meals not one).

The next items on that Texan lunch were 3.75 cups of vegetables, 5 oz. of grains (a bagel is about 3 ounces), and 10 ounces of meat or protein substitute.

Again the daily (three meals) from the FDA are respectively 2 cups, 5 ounces and 5 ounces.

This article from the L.A. Times has enough bologna in it to feed all 375 students in the article for a day. These kids are also only given 15 to 20 minutes to eat all of this.

I know that The Herald is “covered” by using the L.A. Times byline, but can’t you show some responsibility to rough check the studies or facts you print? What about the rest of the news you report? Is it as free of any reality as this article? I hope not otherwise I will not keep renewing.

Charles Best

Duvall