Student-raised beef to be served at high school

Students at Tippecanoe Valley High School in Akron, Ind., are raising four steers to be used for school lunches as part of the school’s farm-to-fork program, Wane reports.

Students will raise the cattle to a certain weight, at which point the steers will be processed at a local USDA-inspected facility and used in school lunches.

The steers were purchased from a local farmer, who sold them to the school at a discount.

The farm-to-fork initiative stemmed from an idea spawned during a political economics studies class. The school is looking at grants and community partnerships to sustain the initiative in the future.

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