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David Lazarus: Team Trump says it's making school lunches 'great again.' It's making them less healthy

It wasn't until the Trump administration recently rolled back nutritional standards for school lunches that I became aware of an organization called the School Nutrition Association, which sounds like the sort of group that fights to protect our kids from the ravages of junk food.

So it was with more than a little disappointment, but not necessarily surprise, that I discovered the more than 58,000 members of the School Nutrition Association include such healthy-living stalwarts as Domino's Pizza, PepsiCo, Kellogg's and Kraft Heinz Co., as well as just about every other major player in

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