Those in /k whining "HURR DURR WE PAY TAXES, WE SHOULD BE INCLUDED", are I guess sheltered enough not to know the nature of this program.

Its not like they are serving KFC or Nando's to those poor kids every morning. Usually its just barely fitting of being called 'food', because the budget used by the contractors are so skimped, and kids from rich families wouldnt eat them because they are nowhere near the quality they are used to at home. What will happen instead is wastage, as the portion rejected by the kids will be just thrown away.

And then there is this issue of the government actually allocating enough fund for these programs to afford the kids more than pitiful excuse for 'food', but the fund is usually squandered first by middlemen and the contractors themselves, as shown by them having shiny new imported cars just weeks after being awarded the contract while the kids only eat white rice and a halfcut piece of hotdog with plain soup.