Jan
21
2020
The cartoon depicts a large figure labeled Big Ag adding to bins of sugar, fat and salt while children gather around a blue container of Red Bull cans. One child reads packaging as another delivers the caption line about new school nutrition guidelines treating the energy drink as a food group. Published in 2020, the image responds to debates over federal school meal standards and industry influence on child nutrition policy. It uses the visual of kids receiving the drinks to underscore concerns that guidelines had been relaxed to permit more processed items in cafeterias.
