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White House to put up to 5,000 salad bars in schools
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Posted on 11/19/2010 7:41:03 AM PST by traumer

First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

Officials in the White House, led by chef Sam Kass, and at the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention, have been working to build a coalition representing the produce industry and Ann Cooper, director of nutrition services in Boulder, Colo. schools, who recently teamed with Whole Foods to raise $1.4 million from customers to establish a grant program that would place salad bars in qualifying schools.

Under the initiative expected to be announced on Monday in Florida, where First Lady Michelle Obama has taken her "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity, Cooper would manage applications for salad bars from the schools along with distribution of funds to purchase necessary equipment.

One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for food-safety reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.

Cooper named three school districts she knows of -- Philadelphia, Austin, Tex., and Montgomery County, Md., -- that have already indicated they will not support salad bars. Concerns have been raised that elementary school children in particular might be prone to spread disease at salad bars because they are too short for the standard "sneeze guard" installed on most salad bars, or because they might use their hands instead of the serving utensils provided.

Cooper, who would not comment on the pending White House announcement, has dismissed those concerns, saying, "As far as I’ve found out,

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41 posted on 11/19/2010 8:03:20 AM PST by traumer
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To: GraceG

They forgot the part where they have to hire government goons to force the kids to eat at the salad bar.

Oh, you mean Michelle will be there?


42 posted on 11/19/2010 8:03:20 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: brytlea

You are correct healthy foods are expensive and the fat, salt and sugar laden stuff is generally cheaper. I agree that local charities with the inclination to feed poor kids is a great idea.


43 posted on 11/19/2010 8:03:20 AM PST by LottieDah (Exterminate the 'Rats and save the Republic!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

LOL! Perfect!


44 posted on 11/19/2010 8:04:01 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: goodwithagun

Many adults and children are allergic to MSG.


45 posted on 11/19/2010 8:04:13 AM PST by LottieDah (Exterminate the 'Rats and save the Republic!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

LOL I didn’t know he had a name! Does anyone know who he actually is?


46 posted on 11/19/2010 8:04:20 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: traumer
I know someone who is not eating salads.


47 posted on 11/19/2010 8:04:47 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: LottieDah

Yep, I avoid it like the plague. I personally have not had issues, by my dad’s heart went into A-fib from exposure. He thought he was having a heart attack. We started label reading about five years ago. The best solution is to cook from scratch. I usually cook in bulk and freeze extra.


48 posted on 11/19/2010 8:06:22 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: dead
My favorite section of the Constitution is the salad bar part.

It's right next to the glittering right to murder your unborn children.

49 posted on 11/19/2010 8:06:22 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Let’s see, when the listeria laced lettuce and carrots get bagged in Mexico and distributed to schools, the enemies of America can generate a regular epidemic of dying kids in America. Yeah, that sounds like a great democrat stratgey, since they want to reduce the population to the ‘manageable levels’ their progressive demigods have told them to reach for. ... And these bastards are still running America!


50 posted on 11/19/2010 8:09:28 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Trajan88

The peanut thing drives me nuts. This is a direct result of liberal policies: free formula and peanut butter for baby mamas. I am a huge advocate of breast feeding through year one, and my son was not exposed to peanuts until he was two (so just recently). It’s so easy for these people to give the kid a PB&J sandwich instead of age appropriate food that their little bodies can actually handle.


51 posted on 11/19/2010 8:09:28 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: traumer
And thats 5000 more salad bars that`ll be mostly ignored by patrons of an eating establishment. Not to mention all the veggies that`ll have to be thrown away.
52 posted on 11/19/2010 8:10:15 AM PST by nomad
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To: goodwithagun

Schools,whether they get government grants or not, are not going to go to the trouble of providing fresh, organic foods to children. It is too much trouble for them.


53 posted on 11/19/2010 8:10:35 AM PST by LottieDah (Exterminate the 'Rats and save the Republic!)
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To: traumer

Pathetic. JFK boosted the Moon Program. Obama’s lovely bride forces salad bars into schools. How far we’ve fallen and how downright evil Democrats have become.


54 posted on 11/19/2010 8:11:22 AM PST by pabianice
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To: brytlea
I don't know if anyone knows his real name, but he certainly has come in handy around here...


55 posted on 11/19/2010 8:14:57 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: SkyPilot

classic compare-contrast image...........or the beauties and a beast


56 posted on 11/19/2010 8:15:20 AM PST by advertising guy (did you know you can type stuff in here ?)
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To: brytlea

“I’m of a mind that kids would all be better off to go back to brown bagging”

I make my kids lunches and I know for a fact that it is fresher, healthier and a lot tastier than anything they get at school. In Montgomery County, the same lunches provided to the schools are provided to the jail. I have sent in salads, homemade soups, sandwiches and homemade brownies or cookies. My kids have been told, “You are so lucky”. All it takes is some time and a bit of planning. No way my kid is going to eat the same junk given to prisoners. No way. Just a thought.


57 posted on 11/19/2010 8:16:30 AM PST by momtothree
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To: traumer
The attempts of Moochelle Antoinette's handlers to make her appear relevant are getting more expensive every day.

They're now easing her away from her odious "Let them eat cake" image into a perky "Let them eat salad" image.....and hoping for a more positive opinion of her.

Of course, we taxpayers will soon be eating beans and sawdust-enhanced hot dogs off of tin plates if this Addams Family continues to squat in the White House where they dine on broiled lobster and imported Kobe beef ($60 lb.).

Leni

58 posted on 11/19/2010 8:17:11 AM PST by MinuteGal (FIRE ERIC HOLDER! IMPEACH OBAMA!.....NOW...Before they Destroy the U.S,)
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To: traumer

Aren’t “salad bars” like a major source of food poisoning and food borne illness?

Brilliant!


59 posted on 11/19/2010 8:17:18 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Yes, it feels like I know him! LOL


60 posted on 11/19/2010 8:18:08 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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