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Stirring Up School Lunch

Get ready for a new choice on the school-lunch menu: yogurt.

Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that school cafeterias could offer yogurt at lunch in place of meat. Until now, school lunches have had two ounces of meat or its equivalent in cheese, eggs, beans or peanut butter.

Beef farmers objected strongly to the decision. They say beef is a better choice because it offers more iron and other nutrients than yogurt. But beef has more fat.

At an Arlington, Virginia, school, Cherrelle Faust, 10, supported the yogurt ruling: "That's cool. I'd eat it." But across the cafeteria, Kendall Avery, 6, wasn't sold: "I know exactly what it is, and I don't like it!"

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