[Oldeconomybuyer]

[EBH]

pssttt....lots of chat about this over hear...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3224779/posts

[Bryanw92]

Uneaten food is not nutritional. If nutrition was all that mattered, we’d eat astronaut food and vitamin pills.

[Sacajaweau]

And they know what these kids are eating how?

[Lurker]

Cut the entire government by 1/3.

[all the best]

I have no doubt that most parents could be feeding their children in a more healthy manner. But nothing is more unhealthy and deadly than government force. In the end we will all be a lot healthier if the government backs off.

[Balding_Eagle]

What matters the most is who gets to decide which lunch the children eat.

I say the parents should.

Those who think it is the governments decision to make, for the safety of our children, they should be thrown off a high cliff into the sea.

[shalom aleichem]

B $

[ansel12]

Since there is no single “packed lunch”, shouldn’t it read that packed lunches ‘sometimes’, or ‘can be’, or ‘frequently’, or ‘often ‘ are nutritionally inferior to?

[smokingfrog]

I grew up eating a packed lunch, and yet I somehow managed to survive. Go figure.

[lacrew]

Just a reminder that, when it comes to children, government knows best.

Fairly soon there will be trial balloon stories about how the government needs to inspect breakfast and dinner......for the children of course.

[riri]

In high school, I would go to the school store and buy a pack of Starbursts. Pretty much every day, that was all I ate. Guess what, 25 years later- I am stll here. Still healthy. Still thin. Don’t have diabetes, etc.

[SandRat]

Based on this, how did we survive? /ridicule /sarc

[purplelobster]

Let the chef decide what the kids like to eat. The Principal can step in if it's blatantly unhealthy. This bizarre central planning by the President's wife and Washington bureaucrats is unacceptable.

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[bubman]

Ooookkkkaaaay, Government study to determine if government programs i.e. lunches at school are more nutritious than what mom packs. Conclusion, mommy knows nothing about the eating habits of their kids....conclusion technocrat knows wha't best for your child better than you....conclusion, parents are harming their children by not adhering to government initiatives, conclusion, parents are now required to submit to government program or risk punitive damages. Conclusion, parents are now required to submit to Child Protective Services menues offered to their kids. Conclusion, Governments will now require all parents submit inventory in cupboards and fridge to see if they are following government dictates. Conclusion, government will require 200,000 new nutrition and enforcement specialists to mandate the success of the new lunch program...Obama will tout the initiative as a success in creating new jobs for the economy and provide a healthy lunch menu for millions of malnourished children across the country. Republicans will be accused of obstruction and starting a war on children by not voting for the bill

Welcome to the abc's of tyranny!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

What a stupid premise. So EVERY packed lunch, all of them; whether it is parboiled tree-bark or a hard boiled egg, is less nutritious than school lunches, any of them. Only a complete fool would make such a statement.

[SES1066]

The research team, led by Alisha R. Farris of the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Exercise at Virginia Tech ...

Would anybody care to wager against me as to the source of funding of this study being from a government grant? Possibilities are almost endless as to a specific source but none-the-less it does put a place-holder in the concept that parents are dangerous to their children, does it not? Taking this concept to its logical conclusion would probably result in bag lunches being banned and lunch room monitors forcing the students to eat their 'healthy' school lunches! Paging the current FLOTUS and overflowing waste cans at schools everywhere!

[Steve_Seattle]

I guess we can’t do anything at all anymore without instructions from the government. How did those of us born before 1980 survive?

[SpaceBar]

Fresh out of the Journal of Pure and Applied Medical Propaganda.

[Cicero]

"I approve this study! Now, gimme my 5%!"