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So far, I've looked at just over 100 online stories about this, from newspapers to TV stations to blog sites to opinion journals, and still have not yet found one, single source which has verified this story. Every single one of them quote either the Carolina Journal or FOX, which quoted the Journal story too, without confirmation.
It's taken on a life of it's own, having been picked up by wire services and spread world-wide and re-printed again and again in right and left-wing outlets, yet nobody has bothered to confirm it at all.
This is "journalism" today, folks, and a part of why we have such discord. Anything will be believed without any proof whatsoever other than that somebody said it happened. Even right here, we have 190 outraged comments about something we're not even sure happened. Are we ALL sheep?
This goes to illustrate an issue that nutritionists have no understanding of what is healthy, when they would opt for an over processed breaded poultry product which has unknown additives.
I don't blame the president for this but see it as schools exceeding their authority. Stick to teaching.... maybe if they focused on that they would do it better.
Mind you most parents have no clue about nutrition. They would likely believe some propaganda from the government. Perhaps It is time to get the Dept of Agriculture out of the gov. and do away with it. and the Dept of education... maybe Ron paul is right about that.
And each school also gets it's own team of nutrition managers! There's no mystery about who the "inspector" was. And people wonder where the money is going... certainly not to education!
Today's "nutrition managers" are yesterday's "cafeteria ladies." And since I don't know the size of the school district (and, I suspect, neither do you), it's hard to determine if not enough money is going to education in this particular school district.
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Originally Posted by OICU812
Michelle is the one putting her face on this issue, so shame on you for claiming the influence of the First Lady is "played out".
Shame on you for not understanding this is a state law we're discussing here, not a federal law. There is a difference; read up on it!
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Originally Posted by gomexico
Read the article. This was an isolated case where one school, one employee at one school, is alleged to have done this. No need to get your nylons in a knot over it. Have problems with this sort of thing, participate in your PTA, go to school board meetings, vote in elections. All politics is local. Keep it real.
Right on!
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Originally Posted by Old Gringo
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Now a local elementary school in North Carolina is searching the homemade lunches
Surely a sign of the end times.
Yet another rehash of the Carolina Journal story. So far the Carolina Journal is the only source of information on this issue.
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Originally Posted by stillkit
This is "journalism" today, folks, and a part of why we have such discord. Anything will be believed without any proof whatsoever other than that somebody said it happened.
Sad, isn't it? John Peter Zenger et al are spinning in their graves.
Cafeterias should provide free HIGH quality Vegan foods. The best ingredients, the BEST non milk chocolate chip cookies. Vegan cheese pizza. FRESH veggie juice from a noisy juicerator. Choices of almond, coconut, rice, soy, hazelnut, hemp milk. Yay team ! Nutrition. If kiddies want junk, they can eat it at HOME.
Only if they have a choice between vegan foods and non-vegan foods. Of course, kids at that age who are vegan are likely to have been indoctrinated by their parents to be vegans...
So far, I've looked at just over 100 online stories about this, from newspapers to TV stations to blog sites to opinion journals, and still have not yet found one, single source which has verified this story. Every single one of them quote either the Carolina Journal or FOX, which quoted the Journal story too, without confirmation.
It's taken on a life of it's own, having been picked up by wire services and spread world-wide and re-printed again and again in right and left-wing outlets, yet nobody has bothered to confirm it at all.
This is "journalism" today, folks, and a part of why we have such discord. Anything will be believed without any proof whatsoever other than that somebody said it happened. Even right here, we have 190 outraged comments about something we're not even sure happened. Are we ALL sheep?
If a child is that allergic then it is the responsibility of the parent to see that their child does not take in what is harmful. In no way, shape, form or fashion should it effect child a.
Persons deathly allergic to peanut oil cannot have any experience with it whatsoever. A hyper allergenic person does not have to be directly exposed to the oil to have a reaction. Secondary exposure can occur from something as simple as a child recently eating peanut oil chips, handling an object with the oil residue on their fingers with the hyper allergenic child picking up the oil on the object. The only way to avoid this is through a total ban. Telling your child to avoid chips or peanuts will do little to negate that risk.
And they are wrong to do so. The CHILD and their family needs to learn how to NOT eat the things that could harm them. The rest of the world does not and should not change according to their special needs.
That is just rediculous! And peanut allergies are MUCH more rare than people like to think they are... but that's really not the point. A child who is deathly allergic to something needs to learn not to eat something from someone other than their parent, to ask what is in whatever is being offered to them, or kept home!
Please see my previous post. Persons with this allergy (especially the potentially fatal one) find it almost impossible to avoid the allergen. There are many instances of individuals suffering near fatal and fatal situations from secondary exposures.
Only if they have a choice between vegan foods and non-vegan foods. Of course, kids at that age who are vegan are likely to have been indoctrinated by their parents to be vegans...
Wouldn't the same be true for non-vegans, ie they were indoctrinated by their parents to be non-vegans.
I have a question (which I know won't get answered)...
On thread after thread I've read conservatives carp about food stamp recipients buying steaks, lobsters and food stamps with taxpayer money. But if the same federal government says that it will no longer subsidize the three Twinkie and Coke™ lunch for children it is a huge communist plot?
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