Posted on 05/27/2014 1:46:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday made a rare foray into a Capitol Hill dispute, using a White House event to rally support for school meal nutrition rules that Republicans are pushing to loosen.
The first lady successfully lobbied for those standards in 2010, and has since become the public face of this and other initiatives aimed at improving the dietary habits of children.
But some schools have complained the rules are too restrictive and costly -- and House Republicans have a new bill aimed at addressing those concerns. An agriculture spending bill approved by a House subcommittee last week would allow schools to waive the standards if they have a net loss on school food programs for a six-month period.
Seeing her nutritional standards under threat, the first lady hosted a discussion with school leaders on Tuesday afternoon at the White House where she ripped efforts to roll back those guidelines.
"This is unacceptable," Obama said.
The first lady said families realize the country is facing a "health crisis," and the "last thing we can afford to do right now is play politics with kids' health."
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For goodness’ sake, Miss Crabtree, just force feed the kids a vitamin pill and a large spoonful of cod liver oil.
Problem solved.
BIG MOMMA OBAMA who knows better than really really really smart white MoMs...
ahh... the thing is, this Michelle Obama law never should have been enacted to begin with... now that it has been, it will be difficult to undo it... no matter who is in charge...
“This is unacceptable,” Obama said.
“Bite me,” JRandomFreeper replied.
/johnny
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Møøse bites can be nasty.
Newsflash: Romney wasn't going to repeal CommieCare. He is its Godfather, for Pete's sake! Just a "tweaking" here and there.
My mother worked when I was in school back in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s. She packed a lunch for us 3 kids every day unless there was something compelling at the cafeteria, which wasn’t very often. I had a sandwich on white bread (baloney, amer.cheese or tuna were my favs), a little snack cake or Twinkie (yum), some chips, a piece of fruit. If you did a calorie count on all of that, I am sure it was pretty high - but I wasn’t the least bit overweight. Kids got to burn off the calories with gym class, playground time, and running around the neighborhood after school. Kids don’t get nearly the exercise they used to get. That impacts health, weight, mental well-being more than anything Michelle is trying to cram down the children’s mouths.
RE: Passing a bill that has no chance of going anywhere is the same as doing nothing.
Well, in this case we might as well cede the entire Congress to Democrats.
I don’t see even a Republican takeover of both houses as going anywhere with Obama still in the White House.
I got three teen-age critics of school food right here.
How can they concentrate on their school work when they are starving?
Mine aren’t picky eaters, either.
On the other hand, a new kid who moved out here from The Bronx thinks our high school’s lunches are amazing because they are hot and served liker real food.
See the following for some of Mooch’s school lunches http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3141477/posts
The first lady said families realize the country is facing a “white house made crisis,” and the “only thing we can afford to do right now is play politics with kids’ health.”
Take that beotch!
Damn these cretins,
School lunches are not the domain of feral government.
The bill doesn’t go far enough. Abolish the Federal Department of Education AND the Federal School lunch program. States will SAVE money by running their own lunch programs and they will be removed from having to participate in Federal standardized testing programs.
Needless to say, I'll take the word of the cafeteria ladies over hers any day.
Not many of the children are eating now.
Some school cafeteria s don’t have a clue as to how to make those fruits and vegetables tasty and interesting to the kids. Changing their diet means teaching a new way of cooking and presenting the new foods...unbelievable.
You can’t just issue a bunch of beaurocrat paperwork to minimum wage kitchen workers and expect it to be implemented and children say “Oh yes can I have seconds of that?”
Just bring your own lunch? Everyone?
The 1st Lady might get pissed and yank your bene's,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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