Which one?

Guess which one our elementary school cafeterias serve for lunch?  

You want to believe it's the locally produced nutritious one on the left.  Please, oh please let it be the nutritious one.

But it's not.  

Our kids get the other one. And they can choose it as their main entree. 

That means a kid could have Trix yogurt and a cookie for lunch.  Wonder how that kid feels a few hours later.  Wonder what that kid's test scores are after having this for lunch.

Just to make the story more interesting, it turns out someone from the Kesey family, the one that's been making Nancy's Yogurt for the past 40 years just up the road in Springfield, works right here in Cottage Grove.  At the high school no less.

It should be easy to serve this locally produced, nutritious yogurt to our kids in our school cafeterias.  But it isn't.

Know why?  Money.  I was told it all comes down to money.  Apparently Trix yogurt is cheaper. Apparently it costs too much to ask if it is better for our kids.  Because if we could afford to ask this question, we would be serving the more nutritious yogurt to our kids.  

Instead  we serve them the other yogurt.  The one with flavors like "cotton candy" and "watermelon burst."  The cotton candy flavored one does not have cotton candy in it and watermelon burst does not have any watermelon in it.   

Now which one do you think the children of GroveAtopia deserve?