Well, this might make them vomit if it showed-up in their salad ...
................. FRegardsPosted 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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What a joke.
If this were a Republican initiative, the press would be howling.
It just made me sick when I saw all the waste. And so many of these kids are the ones who are supposedly our *hungriest* Americans.
Meanwhile, White House occupants dine on kobe beef and other delicacies while Barack Obama chain-smokes and Michelle Obama's ass keeps getting bigger.
Another instance of leftist "do as I say, not as I do."
Of course, suggesting that healthy and tasty wild game be incorporated into school menus always gets one the evil eye from progressives. They're already pissed that people are hunting more to supplement store-bought foods in this depressed economy.
Yum,,,Grown in Sewer Sludge!!!...
Well, this might make them vomit if it showed-up in their salad ...
................. FRegardsIt’s so big even her pup-tent style dresses can’t conceal it! Ever wonder why women of all races with enormous butts are called “sista?”
I just stopped using salad bars, while at a restaurant, a man with 2 kids were being led to their booth and the 2 kids stopped at the salad bar and began grabbing the serving spoons and playing, and not to mention being too short, below the sneeze guard.
Does anyone think the kid will EAT the salad? I noticed that most school lunches, ESPECIALLY the “free” or “reduced price” lunches get TOSSED!! Ask any cafeteria monitor!!! Then they just spend their change on chips and junk (or their EBT card)
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