I don’t hate the school lunch thing.
I do. Not because I hate kids getting food. I hate the message it sends to kids and parents. They state will take care of your simplest and most basic needs. Parents no longer need to even put in an effort to provide. A dangerous message that has consequences that we see now and will in the future.
Seriously, how hard is it to get your kids some food before they head out. They don't need a full blown giant country breakfast. Boil some eggs on Sunday night and they can have them all week. Even now eggs can be bought for 25 cents each. Add it some oatmeal and you have something that takes almost no time and costs less than $1.
And the food they feed the kids is garbage.
This just allows kids and parents to be lazier and fatter and good training for when the government tells them what to do.
Arguments in favor usually succumb to the "won't someone think of the children" logical fallacy. An appeal to emotion.
I remember when being on free/reduced lunch was a stigma that parents wanted to avoid and get out of if they got into that position. It was temporary and transitional for most.