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Do many other countries give free food in school? As a Canadian my high school had a paid cafeteria and elementary school had nothing
Not exactly. There's something called SNAP that benefits a majority of poor children in the states who's families fall below a certain income threshold. Conservatives have voted repeatedly in a way that undermines SNAP recipients. Additionally though, school lunch debt is a big problem in America that people are up in arms about because government subsidized meal programs in schools used to be pretty widespread and have been dwindling because of similar legislation brought by Conservative law makers.
In Sweden school lunches are free, and of good quallity, google image seach for "skollunch" and you will see examples of what is served.
In India, many states have a mid-day meals programme in govt schools from the 1980's. The central govt also focused on it around the mid 90's.
My state, Kerala seems to be decent in that aspect and I think it was even extended to govt-aided schools.
Though, there are some stories where the govt fund is delayed and the school teachers(mostly by the head teacher) have to pickup the slack until the fund gets disbursed.