Posted on 08/15/2013 10:13:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A Tennessee elementary school banned students from eating ham sandwiches, BLT’s and anything else made with pork, but eventually lifted the ban after parents complained.
Third grade teachers at Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn. sent home an “Approved Snack List” for the school year and it specifically banned anything that comes from a pig.snacklist
“No meats containing pork,” read the memorandum. “Starting Monday, August 12, 2013 your child must provide their own snack from the above approved snack list.”
Kids could nosh on raw vegetables without dips or sauces, fresh fruit, crackers, pretzels, and popcorn – but no ribs or pork rinds.
“Only choose a food from the following list to bring into school for snack,” the memorandum stated in bold-face type. “No other food items are permitted.”
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Cheers to them backtracking but the principal approved of it or it couldn’t have been sent out. A little crack in the wall here and another there and you know what is coming. OTOH, it might have been a good thing to know just where Junior’s teacher stands so you can demand another teacher.
Time to end welfare and these fatasses will be slimming very quickly. And diabetes and heart diseases will be going down as well. The only down side would be the junk food companies would have lower sales but who cares.
Ah ha, see the dust that tractor is kicking up? Half the people in Georgia and the rest of the south should be dead if every other kid in school is now allergic to peanuts.
Very simple explanation if you think of what has happened in the last 10-20 years -- GENETIC ENGINEERING to make the foods grow faster, larger, taste better (I beg to differ but), etc.
Now you have peanut allergies, gluten intolerance (wheat), etc etc etc.
The best example is wheat - something that has been a staple of diets for centuries now has absolutely nothing in common with wheat of just 25 years ago and has actually gone from being a beneficial food to being basically toxic.
Exactly.
Since when do they get to dictate?
I am so glad my kids are done or I would be a fixture in their offices.
These a-holes forget who they work for. And I don’t mean the feds.
Well, silly me, duh! It just hit me. Could it be Monsanto and GMO? I bet it is. England has banned Monsanto seeds so does anyone know how many British kids have peanut allergies?
Ah, I just posted the same. Yes, that's why. In my other post, I asked if anyone knew how many British kids had peanut allergies what with England kicking out Monsanto. It'd be interesting to see.
My wife and I recently went Wheat Free by choice, and after three weeks I feel so much better than I did it is unbelievable. Aches and Pains are much less and my blood sugar numbers have plummeted. Still haven't dropped much weight, and am still learning what foods contain wheat and what don't.
Wife talked me into trying it after reading a book titled "Wheat Belly" by a cardiologist she knows from her nursing career (name escapes me).
Her dad's wife and our daughter are both gluten intolerant so for the last few years we have had to plan out holiday meals, get togethers, etc. so it will be nice in that respect too as I won't have to plan multiple menus etc. Have already learned quite a few alternate recipes and products for my favorite foods.
I’d be upset that they are demanding you only buy certain brands of crackers and fruit-roll ups. Who are they to tell me I have to pay extra for a name brand that is nearly the same as the generic brand?
As for the no-peanut crap, forget that too. If a kid can’t be in the same room as another kid eating peanut butter, then the allergic kid should be home schooled or go to a separate school.
“The only thing I would ban is peanuts, and ONLY if a specific student is known to have an extremely violent, potentially fatal reaction to them.”
It’s more sensible for that student to make alternate educational arrangements, then for the entire school to be inconvenienced.
technical question:”
Boy am I flattered. But I am absolutely the last person in the world that you would ever want to ask this kind of question of unless you want a totally silly answer. Everybody on FR knows more about things like this than I so I’m sure you’ll get lots of helpful (or not) comments.
I haven’t completed Computer for Dummies 100 yet, not do I intend to. Since I spend every waking moment on the computer because of my business I was indeed fortunate to have raised a son who knows all I would ever need to know about computers and does this for a living. His services are reimbursed by my supplying him with beer, homemade brownies and a second home for his son/my grandson!
Our conversations generally go like this: My computer has a problem and I need you to fix it. Response: Okay, I’ll try to be there around 10 o’clock tonight after I get everything done.
He has learned not to ask a lot of questions and it is generally a good arrangement for both of us.
Monsanto has it's nose in all those third world countries so who knows how a study would turn out. It's unfair that in the US, Monsanto can put farmers out of business if they don't use or replant their seeds and have countless regulations. But, how can they regulate seeds in foreign countries? You know third world farmers are saving seeds for the next season. They're quickly becoming the only game in town in the US but surely not overseas. Yes, there's also wheat and other grains. Those go into livestock feed and we're eating the livestock. Then there's the hormones in milk and the list keeps growing. Yes, I'm rambling but there are questions that should be answered.
Low carb does me wonders but I have a serious sweet tooth and enjoy making homemade bread. In fact I have some dough rising on this desk.
I consider it my problem. If someone serves shrimp, crab, etc., I refrain from eating them, generally becoming a vegetarian for the night. Not a big deal to me, as I am the one with the issue, not them.
I stopped going to Japanese steak houses, because the style of cooking doesn't suit my requirements. I would consider myself to be a royal pain in the ass, if I started telling them to clean the griddle and all utensils every time they switched from shrimp to steak.
This issue with kids and hyper peanut allergies is an amazingly recent phenomenon. So much so that I think its mainly the parents creating a psychosomatic reaction in the kids. Yes, I believe Timmy is allergic to peanuts, I just don't believe that if Billy eats a PB&J 10’ away that Timmy is having a reaction from it. I think his mother has turned Timmy into a hypochondriac, and she herself is milking it for all its worth, by creating demands on everyone else.
Right. Truly “life-threatening” food allergies are very rare. I find it inconceivable that they have “many” students with such a rare condition at a small town school. If they really do, then that would probably constitute a “cluster” that the CDC needs to investigate to see what is causing it.
I went to school with a lot of Jewish and a lot of Catholic students. The Jewish did not demand Kosher and the Catholics did not prevent anyone from having a corned beef sandwich on Fridays. Back when we were free.
MANY students with food allergies? How many is many?
Maybe they should not have snacks or food at school.”
My grandson announced that he thinks he definitely is allergic to fruit and vegetables, except for tomatoes, and feels much better after he has eaten a meal of either BBQ chicken and bacon pizza or waffles and bacon.
If this school district has “many” kids with allergies, maybe they should separate them by allergy and non-allergy students and just restrict food for the allergy kids. Looked at this school’s website and they do appear to have a lot of classes in each grade. If they did this I bet lots of the allergies would suddenly disappear.
But I really believe the allergy issue is just a convenient smoke screen for other things that the school is try to accomplish without being honest about it. Smoke and mirrors.
I don't know about a pork allergy, but I knew someone who was allergic to chicken. If she had a bite of chicken, her throat would swell and she might need a shot of epinephrine. Despite being the boss, she never ordered us not to have chicken in the office. She just avoided it whenever necessary.
The parents in this district ought to find out....
Sweet Christ, can’t we have one website on the whole internet free from looney left Monsanto hysteria?
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