Ever notice how all the top obamaratettes have been whipped with the ugly stik.?
That gal has a mouth that rivals that of Mister Ed!
May 18, 2010
“The hope is that once exposed to broccoli and pears and baked rather than fried foods, the students will keep eating it, and convince their parents to also.”
Michelle Obama’s ambassador hit New Haven with a pitch for more healthful school lunches. She encountered a tough customer or two.
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The ambassador—Audrey Rowe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s administrator for special nutrition programs—showed up at Barnard School with New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro Monday just in time for lunch.
Rowe (pictured above singing the praises of baked chicken to Barnard fifth-grader Nicole Celone) is touring the country pushing First Lady Michelle Obama’s healthful-food campaign to tackle child obesity.
Monday’s New Haven stop was a return visit for Rowe. In the 1990s she served as social services chief for New Haven’s first black mayor, John Daniels. She then went on to a state commissionership and a top spot at the National Urban League before taking her current position with the country’s first black president.
Rowe and DeLauro used the Barnard photo-op to argue for a reauthorized federal Child Nutrition Act that adds more whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and low-fat dairy products to school lunches; trains school food workers to make more healthful meals; steers more local farmers’ produce to school meals; and cuts the paperwork involved in adding poor children to free school-meal programs.
They chose the pre-K-8 Barnard Environmental Studies Interdistrict Magnet School because it and other New Haven schools already do what the Obama administration wants other schools to do: Serve lower-fat, lower-salt meals with more vegetables; and grow its own veggies in its own student-planted garden.
Rowe said that even when the more healthful food stares them in the face, the kids need encouragement to try it. Again and again. With some help, in the form of tasty recipes.
Rowe called elementary and middle schools “a good place to begin. [The students are] willing to try things.” The hope is that once exposed to broccoli and pears and baked rather than fried foods, the students will keep eating it, and convince their parents to also.
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Yes, and I’m surrounded by the ugly sticks.
Can we please get someone to check on what Moochelle eats for lunch every day? How about the kid who took down acorn?
