School lunch waiver

Michael Saucedo, age 9, showed his plate of chicken strips, chocolate milk, fruit cup, oranges and wheat bread, at Russell Cave Elementary School in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The chicken strips are fried before arriving at the school, then are reheated using a steam and convection oven. Debate in Washington over a controversial school lunch waiver has spread into the Bluegrass State, where proponents say the innocuous proposal helps rural schools, and which critics argue threatens years of work combating one of the nationÕs largest childhood obesity rates. The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on an appropriations bill that includes the waiver provision. (Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)