Posted on 03/05/2014 3:35:37 PM PST by Uncle Chip
More than one million U.S. schoolchildren stopped buying school lunches during the 2012-2013 academic year, after new nutrition standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama took effect.
The Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency inside the federal government, told members of Congress in a little-noticed January 28 report that participation in the school lunch program declined by 1,086,000 in that one year, the biggest drop on record.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise its school lunch standards to bring them in line with a new set of nutrition requirements.
The first lady rolled out the law's final regulations in January 2012 with a presentation linked to her 'Let's Move!' children's health initiative. Changes took effect that fall. In the ensuing nine months, 33 states cited 'challenges with palatability – food that tasted good to students' as one reason sales tumbled.
The stunning drop in cafeteria meals came despite annual increases in the number of children who receive free, taxpayer-subsidized lunches every weekday, the GAO report concluded.
One change in the nutrition standards, a reduction in the maximum calorie-count of each meal, came under fire from student-athletes at the high school level who complained that their bodies needed more food in order to sustain long workouts and build muscle mass.
At the same time, increases in fuel prices and varying weather patterns increased the wholesale cost of many of the fruits and vegetables that student found in larger quantities on their plates.
As a result, the new meals were also more expensive....
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Nice work, Moochelle.
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!
Any experienced Mother could have predicted that!
I’m sure if you fed that to the production and movie star crews of the next Star Wars movie they would be absolutely delighted to eat it!!!
We know the Mooch will be there to make sure every last bit is eaten.
Our two stopped buying lunch in school. At the program rollout our son said everyone would throw most of it in the trash and within a month most were bringing their own.
I’m sure someone is going to get promoted over this!
How soon before all brown-bag lunches need to be inspected for compliance with Big-Mama's mandates?
Works about as well as Obamacare
everyone loves onions as snacks, donchaknow
Humans can’t live on a wookie diet
If FLOTUS was a Repub, this would be shouted from the rooftops by the US "news" media....
I think it would be interesting to know if HER kids are eating this food that's she's FORCING all other kids to eat.
they did that in my daughter’s school in MD. I told the “dietician” that she’s more than welcome to swing by our home at 5:30am and make everyone’s lunches.
The intrusions stopped.
Bet the amount of food scraped off the trays into the slop cans increased too.
Is this what the $1.00 tax on cigars is paying for?
My neice just told me this afternoon that her three kids come home from school hungry on those days when they eat at school. She often sends their lunch so they actually get something to eat.
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