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, we’re 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.
'I’m 4-foot-11 and weigh 90 pounds and I want more food. I can’t image the senior guys on the football team,' Miss Hellrood told WSAU.
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The Government, both Dems and GOPe, want and need ignorant and stupid citizens because ignorant people can be lead around by the nose. An educated citizenry demands freedom and liberty.
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." ~Bertrand de Jouvenel
Note that the Supreme Court has historically clarified the following. Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, deciding policy for intrastate school lunches not one of those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So the federal funding that the corrupt feds are now dangling as a carrot to get intrastate schools to accept the FLOTUS’s diet plan are arguably state revenues which Congress wrongly stole from the states in the form of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes.
When I was in High School back in the mid seventies we could leave the school grounds for lunch. I played both footbal and hockey and a bunch of us from the team would pile into a couple of cars and head to the closest Burger King where one of my teammates worked. The manager gave us all 50% discounts and I would get two whoppers, fries and a huge Coke. I didn't have an ounce of fat on me, it was all muscle.
If we were forced to have the Wookie lunch none of us playing sports would have survived.
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How is their food served? Is it a buffet? Can they get several things on the menu?
Are they able to bypass the dietary restrictions forced on American children because they don’t get money from the government?
I’ve never understood the purpose of having corn or potato chips of any kind as part of a meal, other than they are cheaper than real food-those are snack foods with just about zero nutritional value, never mind a day’s worth or more of sodium...
No to buffet
Yes to several things on menu “A” rated chef, too.
” Are they able to bypass the dietary restrictions forced on American children because they don’t get money from the government?”
Yes.
Tuition $36,000 yr.
I agree. Most of their food is high quality, though.
That is very likely-my cub went to private school until her last two years of HS, when we “mainstreamed” her, and the food in the cafeteria was always much better looking and nutritious than the public school slop-and that was no different when I was in private school, either...
Several months ago somebody posted a picture of their cafeteria here on FR. It is a buffet and looks like all you can eat.
It certainly sounds like it is, but chips are chips at any price-why don’t they just call them snacks? For more than ten times the average private school tuition out here, you’d think they would call a snack what it is...
I can’t disagree with your point, especially since it also is reflected in your screen name, and I wish somebody would decide to take on that battle. I don’t envy that somebody that task as it seems Sisyphean in scope.
The bill was introduced in the US Senate by Blanche Lincoln, Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.[6] It was later approved by the Senate by unanimous voice vote on August 5, 2010. In the U.S. House of Representatives The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed with 247 Democrats and 17 Republicans voting for, and 4 Democrats and 153 Republicans voting against it.[7] President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on December 13, 2010. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is expected to take effect in 2014.[8] New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand pushed for Greek yogurt to be included in the regulations determining acceptable proteins to be served at school. The Chobani yogurt company is located in Chenango County, New York.[9]
The school will probably make lunches from home, illegal.
Other schools have done this.
I think its high time to revolt against these public indoctrination centers pushing islam yet banning christianity, pushing meals nobody wants yet not allowing home packed lunches, and pushing insane zero-tolerance mindthink that prohibits common sense usage.
time for the inamtes to take over the asylum.
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Teachers I know are telling me that the kids aren't eating their school lunches.
They get them, pick at what they like, then toss the rest and go hungry the rest of the day.
850 calories for a lunch is nothing for a growing male working out daily on a sports team.
My frugal school implemented limits a couple of decades ago. They served the sides and main...a serving of fruit was a half an apple or about 8-10 grapes. There was even a little sign by the salt shaker “Two shakes of salt please.” They even cut out straws for the milk cartons and forks & knives. To this day I have to remind myself that it is not polite to drink straight from the little carton when I have one.
Still, it is the parents’ responsibility to see that their children are properly fed. A few generations have handed that responsibility to the government and the kids are now paying the price.
LOL - well it kinda seems they’re really NOT feeding the kids...
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