Report finds fault with school cafeterias

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization affiliated with a group that promotes a vegan diet, has issued a report card on school lunches that gives two Washington, D.C., area school systems failing grades for the amount of processed meat they serve to students. Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Md., public schools received the low grades because they offer processed meats for breakfast or lunch more than 20 percent of the time. Two other systems evaluated in the study, those in Fairfax County, Va., and Prince George's County, Md., counties, received "poor" ratings; they offer processed meat products more than 15 percent but less than 20 percent of the time, the study says. The Cancer Project looked at a month's worth of breakfast and lunch menus at 28 of the nation's largest school systems.