USDA Tells Parents to Teach Healthy Eating Habits: Don’t Praise That Clean Plate

CNSNews.com ^ | April 1, 2015 | Penny Starr

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

USDA Nanny State PING!

[Parmy]

I was told that I had to eat all on my plate because there were starving children in China. That was 68 years ago.

[TheZMan]

“USDA Tells Parents”

Tells?

Go !@#$ yourselves.

[DannyTN]

People in India will starve.

[doc1019]

LOL! You and me both, also 68 years ago.

[ClearCase_guy]

I know how to save about $150B a year from all future federal budget.

Just sayin'

[Zeppo]

The last thing that Michelle Obama cares about is starving children in China.

Or anywhere else.

[Teacher317]

because “offering some foods, like dessert, in reward for finishing others, like vegetables, makes some foods seem better than others.”

And we dumb parents cannot figure out for ourselves which foods our children already prefer. Thank Mother Gaia that we have the USDA to inform us as to which foods our own children prefer in all cases.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Do these people really think anyone listens to a word they say? Or do they just keep the charade because, hey, it’s a paycheck?

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Beowulf9]

So, now the USDA has NOTHING else to focus on...it’s going to tell moms across the country how to feed their kids.

[Rashputin]

Do the jerkoffs at the USDA have any idea how many people have very little on their plates these days thanks to the deliberate destruction of the US ecomony by democrat fascists?

[plain talk]

“I was told that I had to eat all on my plate because there were starving children in China. That was 68 years ago.”

Yep. In my case it was India. Now the child will say “well mom if I don’t clean my plate won’t that be an insult to all those starving people overseas?” Then the enlightened liberal soccer mom’s will say to their child “screw those starving bastards over there ... I want you lean and mean ... and liberal”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So, now the USDA has NOTHING else to focus on...it’s going to tell moms across the country how to feed their kids.

Mission creep.

[tiki]

My hippie in-laws let their child decide what to eat and she became malnourished.

[Crim]

Awesome.

[Secret Agent Man]

Clean plate is great for kids when parents don’t shovel adult proportions of food onto them.

Why we need govt butting in, I just have an instinctive STFUG reaction.

Days like this, I cannot wait till the big reorg.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well after completely effing the food pyramid, hard to find something to eff up worse.

[Publius]

My father was fond of that. In the end, his morbid obesity killed him.