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N.J. High School Students Planning Cafeteria Boycott To Protest Obama Guidelines
CBS New York ^ | 9-29-12

Posted on 09/29/2012 8:07:56 PM PDT by kingattax

Parsippany Hills Students Ask, Why Should We Pay For The Obese's Problems? ------

Students at Parsippany Hills High School held a strategy session on Thursday to discuss a potential lunch strike, on Friday, over what they have called inadequately sized meals.

“This year you’re eating lunch and you’re like ‘Did I even eat?’ You’re not even full,” senior Brandon Faris told CBS 2′s Derricke Dennis.

New federal guidelines stemming from first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign have resulted in limits on protein and bread, and an increase in vegetables and fruits. The changes have also come at an increased cost.

All of it has also sparked a student campaign that has included online parody videos of students falling sleep in class and performing sluggishly in sports.

They hope to further their efforts with a cafeteria boycott that will cost the school money, and students like Faris said they want to know why they are paying the price for other people’s problems.

“If somebody’s obese why should someone like me who’s not obese have to suffer, and eat a small meal when I’d rather have a bigger meal?” he said.

Members of the food service industry told CBS 2 that new federal guidelines have caused a significant shift in portion size.

“There’s a lot less turkey on the sandwich, there’s 33 percent less turkey and the size of the bread has been reduced by a third,” explained Mark Vidovich, who runs Pomptonian Food Service.

The changes have caused some parents to step in and subsidize the small school lunches with brown bag meals from home.

“I certainly don’t want him to feel hungry,” said Kelly Caccavele, a parent of a Parsippany Hills student.


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1 posted on 09/29/2012 8:07:59 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

http://www.ogemawherald.com/

take the poll


2 posted on 09/29/2012 8:08:53 PM PDT by bella1 (As it was in the days of Lot.....)
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3 posted on 09/29/2012 8:10:43 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: kingattax

If you’re feeling hungry, after you eat, you’ve been eating too many carbs.

How much do you want to bet that the dietary guidelines include lots of processed carbs, lots of processed vegetable oils, and next to no healthy animal fats?


4 posted on 09/29/2012 8:10:56 PM PDT by jdege
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To: kingattax
Sorry kids, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Wait until you pay the bill for your parents government...

5 posted on 09/29/2012 8:11:26 PM PDT by gettinolder (Smashed lips save ships.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
BINGO!

Once they control this they will move on to something more.

6 posted on 09/29/2012 8:18:31 PM PDT by Baynative
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To: kingattax

Hey kids, just wait til Obamacare takes effect, you ain’t seen nothing yet as far as Govt control is concerned.


7 posted on 09/29/2012 8:22:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Sadly, that Photoshop is perfect.


8 posted on 09/29/2012 8:23:57 PM PDT by wastedyears (The First Law of Heavy Metal: Not all metal is satanic.)
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To: kingattax
Photobucket Don't matter watch ya'll want...
9 posted on 09/29/2012 8:25:16 PM PDT by One Name
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To: wastedyears

That was photoshopped?


10 posted on 09/29/2012 8:26:20 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: kingattax

Michelle told us that we were going to have to get used to “change.”


11 posted on 09/29/2012 8:28:34 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Many a true word (or picture posted) in jest.....

Check out the forehead...Michelle la Belle Antoinette definitely going Klingon...

Someone photo shop a Klingon Battle Sword ....as the two handed stance looks about right.


12 posted on 09/29/2012 8:32:11 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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13 posted on 09/29/2012 8:35:25 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: kingattax

As a man, it has been my observation, when at an eating establishment and being dished up your food by a woman who has been a mother, she loads it up because she understands the 2nd best way to a man’s heart. Funny, Ms. Obama doesn’t seem to have that natural mothering desire.


14 posted on 09/29/2012 8:45:52 PM PDT by RushingWater
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To: kingattax

Why would local school district lunch menus be constrained by federal guidelines? Is that blackmail, extortion, or some other nefarious sounding criminal enterprise?


15 posted on 09/29/2012 8:46:19 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Baynative
" Once they control this they will move on to something more. " Since we "belong" to the government it makes perfect sense that what we eat needs to be watched carefully. To help us.

We are what we eat and we can't have fat, unhealthy citizens using up world resources, being unproductive and getting sick, which can only drive up health care costs.

Next citizens will be required to do morning exercises to help us all keep fit and trim!

Giant screens will be set up with Michelle training us each day in a massive national work out session.


16 posted on 09/29/2012 8:47:23 PM PDT by garjog (We do not want another four more years of the last four years.)
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To: kingattax

Brown bagging is forbidden?

I have zero sympathy for parents who warehouse their children in these prisons. 30 years ago, you could be forgiven. Now, we all know better. Rotten lunches are not the issue.


17 posted on 09/29/2012 8:51:25 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Democracy = Communism on the installment plan.)
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To: RushingWater

Michelle has her own version of reparations... takes the food off the children’s plates and slaps another slab of ribs on to hers...


18 posted on 09/29/2012 9:06:09 PM PDT by Tuanedge (The Buffalo hates the Tiger, but the Tiger loves the Buffalo.)
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To: andyk

All the money filters through the Federal Government and comes bad smaller and with strings attached.


19 posted on 09/29/2012 9:08:34 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: 5thGenTexan

Right, so that’s extortion, correct?


20 posted on 09/29/2012 9:17:04 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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