Posted on 10/14/2012 7:15:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
They may be good for you, but some students are having a tough time swallowing the new, healthier school lunches.
Across the United States, students are protesting new federal guidelines that have school lunches packing more fruits and vegetables, fewer carbohydrates and less meat.
About 120 students at Jordan Middle School boycotted the lunch program to show their distaste, as did students in Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan.
"The federal government is trying to solve a problem that every kid doesn't have," said Jacob Taxdahl, an eighth-grade football player at Jordan Middle School who started the three-day boycott via a Facebook page. "They're trying to solve obesity in America, but not every kid is obese."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Wonderful to see high school age kids getting upset at government intrusion into their lives.
I would be pissed, too. Taking dietary orders from a ‘lady’ whose caboose needs a lead and chase car broadcasting the “Wide Load” approaching.
Take away their lunch. If they don’t want to eat, that’s fine.
I always hated school lunch. I either ate it or brought from home. Boo hoo on these spoiled brats.
Jacob, apply that across the board and you've just passed "Government 101" with an A+.
Even your name says it all - Taxdahl (Taxitall), LOL.
Those kids are standing up against intrusive government.
I am gonna take away your lunch.
Some schools are banning brought in lunch, enforced by searches.
There’s ways to make school lunches healthier without making them taste like crap.
Congrats - you get to FR's a**hole of the day.
Jacob Taxdahl: I hate him.
Michelle Obama: You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.
Congrats - you get to FR's a**hole of the day."
I'll second that. Just because you are in school you do not lose your right to petition for redress of grievances. And these kids are going about it the right way. Peacefully and politely (with humor), like the Tea Party folks and unlike the Occupy crowd.
Wait ‘til they get a load of government health care for grandma.
Queen Lardbutt Visits The Food Channel
"I did a show with Michelle [Obama] and I just loved being with her."
"She probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show."
"She kept eating even during commercials."
Glork, Glork, Glork, Glork, Glork, Glork.....
These little snots have never been hungry in their lives and have no idea of what it feels like. Let them go without eating for three days then they can claim “We are hungry”.
I never went to a school that served food in any form, in fact I often shared my brown bag lunch with kids whose family was too poor to even have something to send with their kids for lunch so I have no tolerance at all for complaints about food provided by the work of others.
In other words, “Shut up! and be glad you got something to eat”.
If the government was as intrusive then as it is now, you would not be able to share your lunch with anyone and besides your lunch may not have passed the test for ingestion. Lighen up. This is government at its finest??? For some it is the ONLY meal of the day. Many schools have done away with recess and physical education, bus rides are longer and longer because routes have been cut and there is no time for play after school. A little movement might help.
“For some it is the ONLY meal of the day”
I suppose then during the time school is closed and the week ends the kids fast for days and months at a time. Nonsense.
It is government intrusion to demand schools become fast food joints in the first place, it is government intrusion from top to bottom but only when the little ingrates don't get what they want does government intrusion matter.
It is not the role of the government/public schools to feed our children. It is the role of the parents, and the parents only.
If they are derelict they should be investigated for child neglect. If they are simply and truly too poor, charity should be utilized.
Maybe Michelle will accomplish what Newt and Reagan only dreamed of, which is getting the feds out of the business of supply meals to kids.
We can only hope.
They’d better get accustomed to starving, because agriculture is also about to be owned by our government-funded/government-connected overseers. See where manufacturing went? And watch what happens to energy resources with debt repudiation time coming up.
I will repeat my post from a previous thread....
My friend’s sister is a lunch lady at the local high school, and she was ready to tar and feather Moochelle.
The first thing they did was take out the salad bar.
The second thing they did was take out the potato bar.
They are no longer allowed to use salt and pepper.... only approved by the government spices..... which hadn’t arrived by the start of school. So they were serving naked ugly veggies and other foods.
The kids can get a prepackaged salad if they want..... with 1 (count them.... 1) extra veggie. So, they can have lettuce and carrots, or lettuce and cucumber, or lettuce with tomato.... not lettuce with all three. And the cooks are absolutely forbidden to add cheese to the salad. The kids beg them, and they cannot. Salad dressing is oil and vinegar. Period. So the kids are taking their prepackaged salads and dumping them in the trash at the end of the service line. They aren’t even pretending they will eat them.
Today my friend told me her sister is tired of cooking garbage. She said they now serve nachos with chips and meat. No cheese, no veggies, no salt in the meat.
My 13 year old refused to eat at lunch yesterday. He said it was all trash. He chose hunger over what they offered. He will take his lunch now..... all the time, rather than occasionally.
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