Districts prefer the beef less traveled
A movement to buy locally grown meat hits schools, and students are chowing the burgers. Is it worth the cost?
Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
A growing movement that advocates buying and eating locally produced food is gaining momentum in Colorado high schools, where students find homegrown beef can be more palatable — if pricier — than what cafeterias used to serve.
“Tastes better. Not as dry. Thicker,” 10th-grader Logan Alcock said of the new burgers introduced at Palmer High School and four other public schools in Colorado Springs.
