USDA Spending Bill Proposal Leaves School Lunch Program Intact -- Pizza and All

FOX News ^ | November 15, 2011

[Eric Blair 2084]

Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA had wanted to prevent that. Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn't be telling children what to eat.

[Eric Blair 2084]

It always starts with "it's for the children (tm). If gubmint is paying for your healthcare, it is their right, indeed their duty to intervene and save taxpayer money.

[ConjunctionJunction]

School dinner up next. Already happening in Memphis.

[Jane Long]

Pizza ping!

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[Redbob]

I got a better idea: let’s cut out school lunch programs altogether.

[patton]

300+ government agencies to regulate school lunches.

Sigh.

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[Still Thinking]

Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.

Damned Republicans! They want kids to die! [facepalm]

[Alamo-Girl]

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[Eric Blair 2084]

Clearly they are shills for Big Burger, Big Fries.

At least they are not shills for Big Solar who got billions of our money.

[achilles2000]

All dem starvin’ chilluns need dem calories.

[Still Thinking]

Clearly they are shills for Big Burger, Big Fries.

Sounds good! I'd like two sets, plus an apple pie, please!

[Eric Blair 2084]

It’s a typical liberal contradiction.

Somehow we have a childhood obesity epidemic while they tell us kids are starving.

Which is it?

[NoLibZone]

But don’t tell a welfare percipient he can’t get high and buy Doritos!

[okie01]

Somehow we have a childhood obesity epidemic while they tell us kids are starving.

The conservative kids are obese; the liberal kids are starving.

Obviously, redistribution of the calories is indicated.

[kingu]

I'm sorry, I think what they're serving children is horrid. School kitchens that were last used during the first Gulf war, and deliveries of microwave ready food products that are fit for prisoners, not for kids.

If we're going to blow taxpayer money on these lunches, then those overpaid lunchladies can get off their duffs, put away their finger splints from pressing too many buttons, and start cooking for a change. I don't care if they make pizza and burgers, but they can damn well start making food again.

Either that, or replace all those very expensive idiots with vending machines and cut out the middle man. The kids can unwrap their own cellophane. Oh, wait, take that back, last time I was in a school lunch hall, they couldn't even be bothered to do that.

We pay already for staff at schools to cook. Like the teachers in the classrooms, they aren't doing their jobs either.

[Kartographer]

So Jane are you going to start a pizza ping list? ;-)