To strengthen and expand food service programs for children.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [42 USC 1771 note]. That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Nutrition Act of 1966’’.
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE
In recognition of the demonstrated relationship between food and good nutrition and the capacity of children to develop and learn, based on the years of cumulative successful experience under the national school lunch program with its significant contributions in the field of applied nutrition research, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress that these efforts shall be extended, expanded, and strengthened under the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture as a measure to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s children, and to encourage the domestic consumption of agricultural and other foods, by assisting States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to meet more effectively the nutritional needs of our children.