Posted on 05/17/2023 1:42:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering limits on certain food and drink like chocolate milk in schools to “reduce children’s risk of chronic disease.”
In February, the USDA first proposed updates to public school nutrition standards that would limit sodium intake and added sugars from students’ diets. Among its proposals included limiting the amount of flavored milk, such as strawberry and chocolate, in high schools while outright prohibiting it in elementary and middle schools.
“USDA is proposing to allow flavored milk for high school children only (grades 9-12). This approach would reduce exposure to added sugars and would promote the more nutrient-dense choice of unflavored milk for young children when their tastes are being formed. The proposed regulatory text for this alternative would allow flavored milk only for high schools (grades 9-12),” the proposal read.
It continued, “Children in grades K-5 would again be limited to a variety of unflavored milk.” […]
In contrast, some nutrition directors criticized the proposal, noting that chocolate milk still contains essential nutrients and is the preferred beverage of children. …
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Liberals cannot be happy unless everybody is equally unhappy.
Sorry. We never had chocolate milk in school. Anyone who was obese was very different from the vast majority.
How far back was that?
Doesn’t give the USDA constitutional right to do any of this either way.
Back when I was a kid, I only liked chocolate milk. So my siblings would say, “You say you want to be in the army and you refuse to drink regular milk”. But I’ve never seen an army mess hall that did not have both plain and chocolate milk.
When the USDA pays the bills, they can make the rules:
https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp/nslp-fact-sheet
“But I’ve never seen an army mess hall that did not have both plain and chocolate milk.“
You want to compare an army mess hall to a school cafeteria in a country where the kids are now too obese to provide adequate manpower to fill up an army mess hall.
How far back? You mean contemporary nutritional standards are now superior?
Do you watch old movies? People were not obese
Do you want to pretend they were malnourished?
Red herrings. I only asked you how far back the time was when you were in school. And I followed up by saying the USDA has no constitutional right to make nutritional decisions either way.
Parents can send their kids to school with all the sugar they think the kid needs to supply his addiction.
The USDA has been given unconstitutional rights to tell us what to do for as long as most of us have been around
What gives the us dept of agriculture the right to tell anyone how they should be eating?
It is stupid and unnecessary to give kids sugar. They fall asleep after lunch. They’re not active enough.
Our parents didn’t rely on the government to tell them what to give to their kids to eat
Chocolate depletes milk of calcium. Sugar interferes with concentration and causes obesity
“ Red herrings. I only asked you how far back the time was when you were in school. And I followed up by saying the USDA has no constitutional right to make nutritional decisions either way.”
You think parents are prevented from sending their obese kids to school with a supply of sugar?
Definitely agree with all of that.
Of course, we all know the communistic dogma of “abolition of the family”, and that the tenth plank of communism reads “Free education for all children in public schools”. Merely reaping what was sown.
you have kind of missed the whole point
Depends on what you mean by “parents”.
Either way, the USDA has no right to take the place of a mother and father.
“ you have kind of missed the whole point”
Not true. Tge headline reads something about the government being in charge of telling people what to eat. I never read anything about what the government says about what we should eat
I have a science degree with â concentration in health but what I feed my family is based on the knowledge given to me by the elders I grew up with. They knew what was non food. We didn’t have sugar food in the house
Chocolate milk is stupid as a staple for kids
That government schools have been supplying it while we’re watching the kids become epidemically fat is no surprise to me.
Tge stupidity.
you have still missed the point
Right, the kids are fat because of the chocolate milk. Its offered because they won't drink regular milk. They buy soda and chips, or fast food.
“ Depends on what you mean by “parents”.
Either way, the USDA has no right to take the place of a mother and father.”
It’s the department of agriculture. Why would anyone not see a conflict of interest in what they’re selling us or pushing on us
Every parent giving a child over to government schools has either given an enormous amount of parental rights or struggles against government takeover of their kids. But it’s tge parents choice
The government has the right to put in or take out of their cafeterias whatever they want to Parents can supply chocolate milk to a kid in their lunch bag.
I’m not so closed minded that im going to say chocolate milk is good for kids just because the government says so after supplying a generation of obese kids with too much sugar
“They buy soda and chips, or fast food.”
We had no such access. People feed their kids crap and give up control
Kids test scores, their lack of social skills and widespread obesity are due to what?
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