A popular TikTok video has Americans questioning why the Department of Defense is overseeing the food provided to school children and asking the Donald Trump administration to address the issue.
Posted by health activist Melissa Simonson, the viral clip shows the moment she learned at a school district meeting that the DOD funds school lunch programs and only allows them to purchase food from approved companies, which are mostly megacorporations selling processed garbage.
Now that Donald Trump has directed Elon Musk and DOGE to look into the Department of Defense, we HAVE TO look into this
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 11, 2025
The Department of Defense is providing school lunches in America. Just imagine the secret deals going on with this….
“I thought DOD stood for something else,… pic.twitter.com/inrhGvxCdK
“They’ll [DOD] give us hundreds of thousands of dollars, but we can only spend it in their channels,” said a woman at the meeting. “We purchase through DOD, they have their own ordering guide and we purchase through them but they work out the contracts throughout the country… we have no control over that.”
The woman provided an anecdote about bananas being sent to her school that would “not ripen” even after two weeks, explaining they requested the DOD take them off the menu as they could not be eaten.
Since the government only allows schools to purchase items from their providers, the school district was left with no banana option at all instead of simply buying from another supplier.
Simonson asked at the meeting, “If the Department of Defense is supplying the food, and they are the ones who are supplying the contracts with these mega corporations like General Mills, Tyson, Nestle, Kellogg’s, then they are incentivized to get the lowest quality at the highest price, right? So, the more processed the better for them.”
Popular 𝕏 account “Wall Street Apes” shared the video, wondering, “Why is the DoD providing school lunch contracts in America? EXCELLENT question… We need Elon Musk, DOGE and RFK Jr.”
The situation is a textbook example of how the federal government helps out its corporate buddies at the cost of keeping the American people sick.
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