[Hope no one gets an allergic reaction to just looking at PB cookies]
Posted on 09/23/2012 4:51:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.
Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.
"I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal," middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.
Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.
Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing.
One government official tried to put the blame on the students.
"One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they're still hungry is that many children aren't used to eating fruits and vegetables at home, much less at school. So it's a change in what they are eating. If they are still hungry, it's that they are not eating all the food that's being offered," USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton was quoted as saying.
Ms. Thornton just put her finger on the problem. The government is trying to impose a new diet that children are not accustomed to. It’s not reasonable to expect them to either eat what the government deems healthy or go hungry.
Many will opt to go hungry, and that’s the government’s fault.
[Hope no one gets an allergic reaction to just looking at PB cookies]
See, this is what our socialist sheeple-herders have in mind for the lot of us, eventually.
Now if you’re looking for a satisfying meal, made just the way you like it, you need to get captured on the battlefield and end up in Gitmo!
Oh yes, no shortage of people gaining weight there!
Correct.
As Gov't intrudes more and more into healthcare, they will be more and more involved in behavior modification to save money.
The money they save will be used to hire more beaurocrats and also to pay themselves higher salaries.
This school lunch garbage is only ONE example of how it works.
This sounds like a portion problem too, not just pushing certain foods...but not enough of anything.I was on the swin team in HS and believe me, you are an eating machine when you have swim practice everyday. there were no fat swimmers.
I better shut up before they make everyone join the swim team:)
Eisenhower hadn’t gotten that far west with the roads to GET them to you.
The cafeteria staff are eventually going to be fired if the kids toss the lunch in the garbage and no one buys it anymore.
Pack your kids a lunch. Ignore the rest.
Listen to yourself much? Your default bias is that without the Imperial federal govt. controlling what every school child eats they will only eat unhealthy food . Are you sure you are on the right web site?
Hunnus is tasty.
ok
If no one should decide, then how does it get done?
I hate sea urchins. Do you honestly think a food that is truly hated by the majority would be served?
Hummus is made from chick peas (garbanzo beans).
Because it’s obvious something needs to be done that has not been done yet.
Exactly, but those kids that cannot do that need to be taken care of.
How many kids refuse to eat what they are served at home? Just lie these kids in Wisconsin, they figure out ways to get full...like smuggling chocolate syrup. Do you really think middle-school kids are concerned more about nutrition, or filling up on what they want to eat?
Seriously...North Korea?
AMEN! The Feds have NO business in schools! Give them back to the parents, via locally-elected school boards.
AMEN! The Feds have NO business in schools! Give them back to the parents, via locally-elected school boards.
I don’t. It’s not my job and I do not have any data on which to make a decision on.
If I was a minor, you would probably have a point.
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