Promoting healthy eating in schools

I'm happy that this act passed, which will ban the sale of soda and junk food in vending machines and school stores. I also love that there's a provision to try and buy produce from local farms. Still, this is a little unnerving:

The school nutrition bill institutes nutritional guidelines, to be developed by the Department of Public Health, for foods and beverages sold to students outside of the federal meal program.

So, we're telling kids they can't choose to buy soda and chips, but the school can continue to serve them french fries, chicken nuggets, piles of cheese, gravy, ground beef, and sugar-and-white-flour-laden desserts? If we really want to get kids eating healthy, we need to speak out against political pressure from factory farms and demand that our country's nutritional guidelines come from somewhere like the American Dietetic Association instead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hmm, I wonder whose dietary guidelines the government should use -- those of scientists who study nutrition, or those of people who are looking for factory farms to profit.

Oh, and we'd also need to ask the U.S. to stop subsidizing corn and corn syrup and white flour and start subsidizing local produce.