Neb. district rolls out local-beef program

Mullen Public Schools debuted its Beef in the Schools program last week, which provides locally sourced beef for the students’ lunch, reports Omaha.com.

The program works in collaboration with local producers who donate beef, which is then processed and shipped to the schools in Mullen as well as two other school districts.

“Right now the majority of the commodity beef in the school lunch program comes out of California. [We] think kids in Nebraska schools should be eating Nebraska beef, so we’re getting locally raised beef onto the lunch plates of Nebraska kids,” Brenda Masek, region two vice chairwoman of the Nebraska Cattlemen organization—which helped organize the program—told the website.

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