Gone are the days of late-night study sessions accompanied by greasy fast food — at least for liberal college students at Ohio University.

Students at the college are demanding that 20 percent of food served on campus be so-called “real food” by the year 2020.

What the local Wendy’s manager can do wasn’t immediately clear.

What exactly is “real food,” you may ask?

According to an organization called Real Food Challenge, which encourages students like the ones at OU to protest on their behalf, Real Food is food which “truly nourishes producers, consumers, communities and the earth by fundamentally respecting human dignity and health, animal welfare, social justice, and environmental sustainability.”

In other words — it’s anti-corporation, anti-success, pro-green, and pro-regulation.

The national campaign’s goal is to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and towards “real food” by 2020.

Students at Ohio University decided to take their frustration out on a local Wendy’s this spring. More than 20 students marched with cardboard signs shaped like large fruit and hand delivered a letter to the Wendy’s store manager.

The actual goal of the local student protesters can be harder to pin down than just the call for “real food.”

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Anna Toborg, a junior studying plant biology and a member of Real Food Challenge OU, told The Post – Athens that the treatment of fast food workers by the franchise companies is a feminist issue because immigrant farm workers can be the victims of sexual assaults. Toborg said workers who have been sexually assaulted can’t speak out because of their legal status and concern for their jobs because they depend heavily on those wages.

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What the local Wendy’s manager can do about that issue wasn’t immediately clear.

Nationally, Real Food Challenge encourages protests on Burger King, McDonald’s, and Subway, in addition to Wendy’s, on minimum-wage issues.

These students are looking for more expensive fast food, more expensive workers to make it, and many also want free student tuition and student loan debt forgiveness. None of the OU students offered their thoughts on how those combinations may financially impact low-income Americans, who would be priced out of a hyper-local micro-green veggie Whopper. Perhaps these students should drop the fruit shaped signs and head back to math class.