Posted on 08/03/2014 9:34:08 AM PDT by Innovative
But the sales won't be so sweet starting this fall. Campus bake sales—a mainstay of school fundraisers—are going on a diet. A federal law that aims to curb childhood obesity means that, in dozens of states, bake sales must adhere to nutrition requirements that could replace cupcakes and brownies with fruit cups and granola bars.
The restrictions that took effect in July stem from the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by first lady Michelle Obama and her "Let's Move!" campaign. The law overhauled nutrition standards affecting more than 30 million children.
The law also required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to set standards for all food and beverages sold during the school day, which includes vending machines, snack carts and daytime fundraisers. It allowed for "infrequent" fundraisers, and states were allowed to decide how many bake sales they would have that didn't meet nutrition standards.
Without state-approved exemptions, any treats sold would have to meet calorie, sodium, fat and other requirements. The law permits states to fine schools that don't comply.
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You've got that right. When I first read the article, I thought it had to be satire. But it's not satire, it's the scary truth.
I wonder if all this is tied into federal grants: the feds tax you, then give some of the money back if you promise to do what they say.
Our diet was fairly normal, until the late 1960s-early 1970s, when the “health foods” movement really started to gain momentum.
We used to be able to eat ice cream once a week. When I was really little, my mother would sometimes give me a dime to take to the grocery store up the street to buy candy. And so on. Then she discovered the “health food” movement, and everything changed. Instead of chocolate, we got carob (gag). It was bad, because we no longer could eat normal food, but everyone else still was.
And now, it is still really hard to partake of treats moderately... I just want to eat them until I am stuffed. So I buy a single small bar and eat it at home, to avoid the temptation. I’m not obese now, but I once weighed over 200 pounds (at 5’3”).
I’m sure carrot sticks will sell just as well... /s
IMHO the real issue is the loss of additional funding. I think this was a deliberate move to make schools even more reliant on Federal funding.
“Did it not have to have the approval of RINOs to pass this in the first place?”
These are all regulations by the agencies of the executive branch — Congress has nothing to do with it.
Reading how the Feds take away our rights make me puke in my mouth. Is that also outlawed?
I guess you did miss it. It's there as plain as day -- right next to the part that allows the Federal government to run public schools.
Just say “No”. Hold the high-calorie bake sales anyway.
What will the gubment do...send a SWAT team?
Oh...nevermind.
We had the same childhood! I can remember when we had doughnuts in the house and then one day my mother discovered something about “health food.” She also bought a book by somebody called Rachel Carson. The world fell in. We had brewer’s yeast for lunch and carob bars for dessert. I buried most of this food in the back yard when I could get away from her.
Remember how terrible the packaging was for health food in those days and how you had to travel miles to find the store? And all the owners were communists?! And how all the children had a Ring Ding at lunch and you got disgusting plain yogurt dripping on your brown paper bag? Everything but everything was put through the deflavorizer.
We have an interesting book here - there’s another freeper here who had this problem.
I'm actually surprised the WSJ published this.
The law does end Federal funding for school district's that do not comply and does "allow" states to "fine" (actually reduce their state funding, sheesh) if they do not comply.
But they do not have to comply and nobody can force them to.
Hey America. The Nazi politicians running the Federal “government” say you can’t have bake sales. How do YOU “feel” about that? “Whatever”?
I teach a severely handicapped life skills class. Bake sales are a GREAT way to teach money. Now what? I’m not there to baby sit, and cookies SELL. Carrots, forget it...
I don’t remember Congress passing anything like this. How did this happen?
The only way to retain American sovereignty is to dismantle the power of the Federal Government as it is today. Put the Federal government in its place. Right back where the founders intended it to be.
The Fed has no right to my cupcake. I am not joking.
“The bill was introduced in the US Senate by Blanche Lincoln, Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.[6] It was later approved by the Senate by unanimous voice vote on August 5, 2010. In the U.S. House of Representatives The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed with 247 Democrats and 17 Republicans voting for, and 4 Democrats and 153 Republicans voting against it.[7] President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on December 13, 2010. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is expected to take effect in 2014.[8]
From Wiki.
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I would immediately open up my garage & my lawn for a bake sale. NOT on school grounds—A private setting.
Obama would NOT have a single thing to say about it.
Look at the upside: After scattering with tails between legs, the BLM Storm Trooper Unit now has a new mission. They can re-brand themselves as the BOM - Bureau of Obesity Management - and start massing around children selling doughnuts. With any luck, there may be resistance by the kids, and the troopers can try out their cool weapons.
That's the flip side to government giving healthcare to the indigent.
Incredible . . . right up there with "privacy", "penumbra", "3 gal. per flush", "air-bags", etc. somehow being found in our Constitution.
Absolutely outrageous that we let that rather large-bottomed, heavy weight, rotund, FLOTUS tell us that we and our kids are fat.
What the law probably REALLY means is that non-compliance gets funds cut off.
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