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On any schoolday, more than 19 million children participate in the School Luneh Program which operates about 180 days a year and uses a billion dollars worth of food a year.
If they all sat at one lunchroom table, on both sides, it would extend 3,600 miles — or from Washington, D.C. to 150 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska.
Daily they consume some 4,750 tons of milk in half-pint cartons plus 82 carloads of ground beef for hamburgers and some 19 million buns
According to Ruth M. I^e.verton. Ph D , of the Agricultural Research Service of the US. Department of Agriculture, the School Lunch Program has grown steadily since it began
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