In cases where children are obviously not fed enough or not being fed properly and as such, suffer the consequences of their parents' neglect to ensure their good health resulting in problems like diabetes, which is potentially fatal, would you consider that endangerment and thus, intervention is required?
There is a difference between giving one child who gives indication of having an ear infection an antibiotic, and giving all kids antibiotics because some of them might have an ear infection that was missed.
There's a difference between the police coming to your door to search your home because they have gotten a good tip that you are harboring a fugitive, or store drugs in your house, and the police searching every home in every neighborhood because somebody might be committing a crime.
There is a difference between a state agency meddling and rummaging through my kids' lunches because they give evidence of malnutrition and a state agency rummaging through every single kid's lunch because they *might* have lunches that don't suit the preferences of that state agency (and who elected those people? Nobody. What are their standards? Do you realize how much they rely on documentation from 'research' other state agencies, and studies heavily politicized and influenced by Monsanto?)
That difference is called pre-emptive vs 'with cause.' The state does not get to meddle in my family's business without *cause.*
Incidentally, there are may other problems with your supposition that the state knows best what we should feed our kids and so should get to intervene.
For one thing, what a kid eats for lunch on school days is not necessarily a reflection of their over-all diet.
More importantly, the state has gotten it drastically wrong for decades when it comes to food and nutrition. They caused more heart attacks and obesity when they told people to stop eating butter and start eating margarine- a frankenfood with transfats that causes all kinds of health issues. The lipid hypothesis is a fraud, yet the government continues to promote it.
Their food pyramid has been wrong from the beginning, and it's not improved now.
I believe that raw milk is healthy and nourishing and important for growing children and that pasteurized, homogenized milk is harmful to them, and the government believes the opposite.
It's really just not their business to meddle in my kid's lunches. Next thing you know, somebody will be insisting we have to let the government in to inspect every family's home kitchen.
Which is just one of many reasons why we homeschool