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Hopefully, the juniors and seniors in high school students will remember this in 2016 when they vote for the first time. Have you ever noticed that in the school lunch news stories they rarely interview any students? The lunch ladies weigh in, the administrators weigh in, the parents weigh in, the government weighs in...
"A new Harvard study of the program, WCPO Channel 9 reported, "shows that 60 percent of fresh vegetables and 40 percent of fresh fruit are being thrown away." "And a recent study released by the National School Nutrition Association found 81.2 percent of schools surveyed indicated an increase in the amount of food being thrown away by students since the new nutrition standards went into effect two years ago," the televised report continued."
Oh well, then I guess they can starve themselves. If they don't like the food then they should bring their lunch....problem solved. Most kids who don't get a decent meal at home are thankful for what they eat at school and would never throw it in the trash.
Are you serious? Michelle Obama is abusing kids by giving them publicly funded healthy food?
Since when are taxpayers required to pay for unhealthy food for kids? That makes no sense. It's government food, it should be healthy. If their parents want them to be fat, they're free to stuff them with cake and candy themselves.
I agree. I would hardly call Michelle a child abuser or accuse her of starving children. I think she had the right idea with the program, the problem is poor kids are not used to eating healthy food. When you've been raised on chicken nuggets and Pop Tarts your whole life, a salad isn't going to suddenly become appetizing.
Oh, for Ford's sake! The School Lunch Program is a Dept. of Ag program, with farmers as well as students being the beneficiaries. It gives the farmers a market for their products.
You think kids won't eat without government's help? You think farmers won't find markets for their products without the government?
Oh well, then I guess they can starve themselves. If they don't like the food then they should bring their lunch....problem solved. Most kids who don't get a decent meal at home are thankful for what they eat at school and would never throw it in the trash.
You are not allowed to bring your lunch, it is required that you eat the school supplied slop or nothing. Kids have been disciplined for bring in unauthorized food.
Try to keep up...
You are not allowed to bring your lunch, it is required that you eat the school supplied slop or nothing. Kids have been disciplined for bring in unauthorized food.
Try to keep up...
Public schools in my state allow kids to bring their own lunch no matter what it is. And we can even bring in mcdonalds if we want. So what states are you talking about. How am I not keeping up
"The program has a dual purpose: meeting the nutrition and health needs of children and the economic needs of farmers. This dual purpose has its historical origins in the Depression and has been evident ever since.
• The program has strong support from agriculture interests and powerful backing from members of Congress from farm states or districts."
Oh well, then I guess they can starve themselves. If they don't like the food then they should bring their lunch....problem solved. Most kids who don't get a decent meal at home are thankful for what they eat at school and would never throw it in the trash.
Some folks just don't seem to be getting the issue. The poor schools, with a high number of kids on free or reduced lunch plans have no choice as they need all the federal dollars they can get. However, kids in districts where the lunch rooms received minimal federal subsidies, but still made a decent profit from the much larger percentage of paying students, are suffering because the students are doing exactly what you are saying, bringing their lunch.
The weight problem with the US isn't just confined to K-12 individuals, it is an issue everywhere. If government food mandates are good enough for K-12, they are good enough for higher education as well. Just pass a law or regulation that says if an institute of higher education takes in students that received federal student loans, those institutions and their third party vendors must follow the nutritional guidelines that K-12 now have to follow. Keep the freshman fifteen from becoming the freshman fifty!
Some folks just don't seem to be getting the issue. The poor schools, with a high number of kids on free or reduced lunch plans have no choice as they need all the federal dollars they can get. However, kids in districts where the lunch rooms received minimal federal subsidies, but still made a decent profit from the much larger percentage of paying students, are suffering because the students are doing exactly what you are saying, bringing their lunch.
The weight problem with the US isn't just confined to K-12 individuals, it is an issue everywhere. If government food mandates are good enough for K-12, they are good enough for higher education as well. Just pass a law or regulation that says if an institute of higher education takes in students that received federal student loans, those institutions and their third party vendors must follow the nutritional guidelines that K-12 now have to follow. Keep the freshman fifteen from becoming the freshman fifty!
Exactly. We're seeing it in the cafeteria where I work. The large number of kids who didn't receive free/reduced lunches, the ones who primarily purchased food from the "cash only" ala carte stations, are now packing or having take out dropped off. The bakers who used to make our profitable cookies, brownies, banana bread, etc. are filling their time cutting up the fruit and vegetables that end up in the trash. We may soon see cuts in staff hours... maybe even positions next year.
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