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Unhealthy? For myself, I don't care. I eat what I like, drink what I like and smoke what I like. When it kills me? (shrugs) I'll die anyhow. Might as well have fun on the trip! I simply cannot imagine living my whole life trying to prevent that which cannot be prevented.
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Originally Posted by Wyndsong71
No, I don't think schools should serve lunches at all. That should be the parents job.
I think schools should have good healthy lunches. But... no subsidies. Give lunches back to the lunch ladies who for years and years have fed generations just fine. Common sense menu's to keep our children "thinking" but let's get back to what education should be all about... Educating our children!! When so many kids can't read, do basic arithmetic, make change, balance a checkbook, or any of today's basic skills just to survive then somethings gone terribly wrong. Perhaps it is too much government intervention and perhaps it's time to get back to BASICS and let lunch be just that... lunch.
I'm continually amazed at all the people who are generally against healthy eating. Big Food (and I use the word loosely) companies sure got all you guys jumping whenever they need you to.
I don't think anyone is "against eating healthy". Most people who are against this change are against big government involvment. At the very most it should be a state legislation, nothing to do with the federal government. Ideally it should be up to the parents in each school district. But I know allowing people to decide for themselves is too much to ask.
This is a classic example of why changing a menu at school has no chance to achieve any positive results.
First .. the rational conclusion is that kids aren't going to eat food that they don't like, particularly at school. This should not be a surprise to anyone who can see past their own noses. So, the kids will just dump it in the garbage can on the way out the door.
What's the brilliant solution for that? Force feed them? Shall we impose a mandatory clean lunch plate ... leave your federally mandated brussel sprouts on the plate, and CPS will be summoned? Off to food jail for the non-compliant? Or just fines for the parents?
No, I like enchilada's, even for breakfast. In fact, ya oughta try enchilada's and eggs some morning. Yum yum!
Aside the fact that Mexican cuisine is the most fat laden, unhealthy of cuisines ... I really don't think it's anyone's business but yours what you choose to eat for breakfast, or any other meal.
Assuming you'd agree with that, I suggest that this same philosophy be extended to others ... including the parents and the children to whom the government wants to mandate what should be served in school for lunch. Is this any different than someone telling you you can't eat enchiladas for breakfast?
I think schools should have good healthy lunches. But... no subsidies. Give lunches back to the lunch ladies who for years and years have fed generations just fine. Common sense menu's to keep our children "thinking" but let's get back to what education should be all about... Educating our children!! When so many kids can't read, do basic arithmetic, make change, balance a checkbook, or any of today's basic skills just to survive then somethings gone terribly wrong. Perhaps it is too much government intervention and perhaps it's time to get back to BASICS and let lunch be just that... lunch.
Ah, but they are not starving. Those 2 meals a day keep them away from death's door don't ya know.
Aside the fact that Mexican cuisine is the most fat laden, unhealthy of cuisines ... I really don't think it's anyone's business but yours what you choose to eat for breakfast, or any other meal.
Assuming you'd agree with that, I suggest that this same philosophy be extended to others ... including the parents and the children to whom the government wants to mandate what should be served in school for lunch. Is this any different than someone telling you you can't eat enchiladas for breakfast?
But when the majority of the kids in school are Mexican then that is what you serve.
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