Posted on
November 25, 2025 by
The VRG Weblog Editor
by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD
On October 28, 2025 Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) and Alma Adams (D-NC) launched the Plant Powered Faculty Meals Pilot Act, H.R. 5867. The invoice was referred to the Home Committee on Training and Workforce.
This invoice, if authorized, would create a voluntary grant program for college districts to help faculties offering 100% plant-based meals and milk choices. In keeping with the textual content of the invoice, a 100% plant-based meals or milk choice wouldn’t comprise “any animal merchandise or byproducts, akin to meat, poultry, honey, fish, dairy, or eggs.”
The funds that might be made out there via the grant program may very well be used for:
- Coaching college foodservice workers,
- Buying plant-based sources of protein and milk from “socially deprived producers, native producers, and ladies, veterans, and starting farmers,”
- Selling the plant-based meals to college students and offering diet schooling,
- Extra labor prices associated to getting ready and serving plant-based meals,
The invoice would additionally require faculties to supply a non-dairy milk substitute to any scholar with a written request from the coed’s dad or mum or guardian. The invoice additionally permits faculties to offer non-dairy milk alternate options, in keeping with the Dietary Pointers for Individuals, to any scholar as a part of a reimbursable meal, with no requirement for a physician’s word.
