Posted on 11/03/2014 12:29:54 PM PST by Mount Athos
A Wisconsin high school student is leading a boycott of school lunches to protest new nutrition rules and calorie limits that she says are leaving her classmates still hungry.
Meghan Hellrood of D.C. Everest High School in Weston, Wisconsin, is the latest student to take on the new school lunch regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
'We have calorie regulations now on our lunches, so students cannot take as much food as they used to be able to, but the whole Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act put restrictions on calories. The whole point of it was to get healthier foods, but instead of healthier foods, were getting smaller portions of more processed foods,' she told WSAU radio.
School cafeteria staff are even required to limit access to barbecue sauce and mayonnaise packets, she says. Students are only allowed to take one sauce packet because use more could exceed the 850 calorie lunch limit imposed by the federal law.
Miss Hellrood has launched a movement at her school to encourage all students at her school to bring a bag lunch on November 13 and refuse to pay for school lunch.
She has also organized an effort to make sandwiches for the students who receive free or reduced lunches.
She estimates that if all 1,500 students at her school participate, it will cost the school district $3,000.
'Help us send a message to Washington. By packing your own lunch, you will help show our school district that we are unhappy with the so called Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,' she says on a Facebook page she started to spread awareness of the campaign.
'Im 4-foot-11 and weigh 90 pounds and I want more food. I cant image the senior guys on the football team,' Miss Hellrood told WSAU.
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Hey kids, as you grow up, please remmber the democrats did this to you.
Democrats’ War on Kids. Spread the meme!
In many high schools students are allowed to leave for lunch, some have cars, it’d be great to see them organize a way for someone to make lunch runs to Chik-fil-A or whatever.
Eight hundred and fifty calories for lunch? How do the athletes survive? How do they stay awake? The brain needs nourishment as well as the rest of the body.
OBAMALUNCH
280-340 calories.
symbolism
Have a burger truck and a taco truck come next door, every day at lunch time.
This was printed in the Daily mail out of the UK? Why must we get our information from overseas? Damn useless media over here!
What Michelle’s kids ate today: https://www.sidwell.edu/mobile/index.aspx?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=62973&ModuleID=375&StartDate=11/3/2014
Or pregnant teenaged girls.
Counting other peoples calories. A new low for socialism in America.
Of course, Stalin and Mao did it. They called it FAMINE.
I guess that’s what American Pig Socialists are pining for. Other people’s famine.
I’m sure the Royal Socialists in charge EAT THEIR FILL.
If her school was teaching students the federal governments constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, then Meghan Hellrood could simply argue that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to make policy for intrastate school lunches.
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There are certain stories which our media choose not to report.
Since this story is very critical of dear leader and his wife’s lunch program, our media decided to ignore it.
I guess we should be thankful for media in other countries and the internet so we can learn about some things happening in our own country.
Republicans should stand with the students on this issue.
That link should be sent to the girl.
Republicans should stand with the students on this issue. Kids in High School are old enough to know what they’d like to eat for lunch.
It’s wrong for control freak democrats to do this to young people.
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