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.
get the feds out of our schools
” In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup.”
Lol! Force the kiddies into system D early so they learn it well.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/28/black_market_global_economy?page=full
I wonder what malia and sasha get to cram down their throats at lunch. Oh, that’s right -—they go to that espensive private school for the 1 percenters. Those reduced calories are only for the little people. You control what people get to eat, you control the people.
So lots of folk agree our kids need to eat better but if someone we hate tries to correct that is, it’s bad?
So American kids are starving. MO doesn’t care. Her spawn are being nourished.
And USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton might try eating that hogslop before judging children whose parents pay her salary.
And no one ever got the name of the person who threw the NC child’s lunch away and made her buy pink slime chicken strips. A lawsuit would have exposed that info in a hurry.
Parents need to rise up and have this thrown out. Food is just the start. Just think what could be next- they are totally usurping your authority as their parents.
Yes, when done by governmental force it's very bad and as noted here, completely counter-productive. School menus should be decided on a local basis not by a national imperial edict.
The US Dept of Education spends almost $20 BILLION a year, lots of it borrowed. Close it down. Save the money, save the kids.
So if the local school district is in a poor environment and the people that live there are not healthy to start with, the kids should just eat what they are told to eat by the locals? What about fed funding for these schools?
So if the local school district is in a poor environment and the people that live there are not healthy to start with, the kids should just eat what they are told to eat by the locals? What about fed funding for these schools?
30 years ago, my children didn’t care for the food in their schools’ cafeteria. For all those years, I was up early to make 5 lunches that were nutritious, and were what my children would eat.
Peanut butter was a staple at our house, as well as a few other things they liked.
They are all now healthy adults, raising children of their own.
Again, how in the hell can Obama still be winning in the polls?
People don’t like the change that’s coming down from government but yet these morons keep supporting the rats that do this kind of crap.
Why would anyone put humus on a kid's plate to eat? I don't even like humus, why would a kid? The school lunches were not that bad, nutritionally plus, the kids would at least eat the food. There has to be a balance in what is served...
My daughter is an athlete and says she’s starving everyday even when she eats the lunch. Even the non-athletes are hungry. I noticed her bringing snacks, mostly healthy, to school, which she never did before. She has a BMI of 21.3 and hasn’t gained any weight despite the extra food and she’s even checked this herself, but she knows she’s bringing extra food to school and wondering if it was going to make her gain weight. I don’t want her obsessing on her weight, either. She said some kids are scraping together whatever few dollars they have and going over to the convenience store near the school before or after school and are eating tons of candy bars, chips, whatever. So whatever this new dietary plan is, it isn’t working. I can pack my kids a lunch, but a lot of parents won’t. What it comes down to is kids are now getting the lunch (many of them for free), tossing most of it or still being hungry after eating what is edible, coming up with money and eating convenience store junk. Not helping the situation. Tax payers are paying for lunch that winds up in the garbage and some how kids that get “free” lunch can afford candy and soda after school to stop the hunger pains. Go figure. Spending more, eating worse, and more gov’t control. And being hungry all day during class. Thanks Michelle!
The union sees that the teachers have what is needed to keep the voters from rebelling against the system and the gov't. provides the money to provide the influence.
I won't take the time to look it up, but I think the national average cost per pupil is something like 7 or 8 thousand a year.
For school districts that no longer provide paper, pencils and all the OTHER things I got for free from the Boston Public School District (it was stamped on the green pencils we got), wayyy back in neanderthal times ... 1953 or 4, They're not broke.
And who are you or anyone else to decide for them what they should eat? How many times have “experts” told us what was good for us to eat and how many times have they quietly revised the food pyramids and their recommendations? The obesity we see now is because of the incorrect recommendations the experts made in the past and because of the lack of recess and the longer school days. If the Federal governments butted out the schools could experiment locally to see what works. Hint recess and lots of food choices. Any moron should have figured out by now that forbidding or limiting sweets makes them desirable especially to suggestable kids. We never limited sweets, never pushed them and our kids could take them or leave them. We wound up throwing out Halloween candy en mass a week later. Coercion is not the answer to any question when it comes to Government and its law abiding citizen and social engineering should be outlawed.
“We are Hungry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo
What’s the food you hate the most?
Would it be good if we made a situation where that was the only food you had available for 8 hours of the day 5 days out of the week? Would you consider it benevolent of us if we said you had to either eat that thing you hate or else go hungry for most of your waking hours? Since we know what is good for you, and there’s no other food that’s good for you except the crap that we know you hate?
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