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Most school cafeterias don't have kitchens anymore to cook healthy food, just microwaves.
It's contracted out to companies that provide the ready to eat meals.
3 multinationals dominate the school lunch program which generated $43 billion for them (last reported in 2009 with no new updates by the government).
Social welfare programs, like school lunches, are "business operations" now since the USG contracted the work out and pays these companies.
so the solution is to throw the baby out with the bath water, and not give poor children even one healthy meal at school? Just let them starve or feed them off the .99 menu from McDonalds?
IMO Michelle would have done better to also encourage that children and their parents get more physical exercise. And... also directed more of her message to the black (and Hispanic) communities. When I look at my fellow co-workers (and it's an extremely diverse group racially), the blacks (Americans and Haitians) are particularly addicted to the soda fountain drinks, such as orange flavoured soda. And the same goes for Hispanics from South America. Meanwhile, the Asians are drinking tea and water. The few white people on staff drink water, ice tea, and skim milk.
I think that one of the biggest problems with childhood obesity is the high consumption of soda and other sugary drinks. As to blaming McDonalds, the problem is less what the kids are eating in school, but that their parents are too lazy to cook a healthy meal for their family, and instead take the easy way out by feeding them fast food such as McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Even at work, the blacks will joke how much they love fried chicken. Anytime we have it available for our employee meal, they all rush towards the frying station. And I don't see them very often making and eating a healthy salad.
Just trying to feed school children a healthy lunch (and breakfast) at school is not the answer. It's has to be about fixing the substandard parenting that these obese kids are getting. It's not the school's job to fix all these problems. It's the parents that are teaching their kids bad eating habits.
BTW I am not saying that obese children is not a white or Asian race problem, but Michelle being black makes her a better spokesperson for her black community.
I'm all for making it much harder/painful to buy soda. Every time that's looked at and a "vice tax" is proposed it's seen as a huge affront to liberty by the Sarah Palin crowd, less we look to real world solutions to confront obesity and perhaps even healthcare costs.
Michelle Obama was a hypocrite. She preached healthy eating then couldn't pass up any fried food known to man. Classic liberal do as I say not as I do. Her mandates for school lunches were also a failure, as kids wouldn't eat a lot of that crap.
We have an obesity problem due to peoples CHOICES. Also we are bombarded with unhealthy food by the media constantly.
Pilot1: the evil terrible media bombards us with unhealthy food choices.
Also Pilot1 : that hypocrite Michelle Obama used the media to promote healthy food choices
so the solution is to throw the baby out with the bath water, and not give poor children even one healthy meal at school? Just let them starve or feed them off the .99 menu from McDonalds?
The government contracted this work out. If you want to be mad, then be mad at your government.
You can walk into a gas station convenience store and buy soda, monster energy drink, a bag of chips, ice cream and an easter basket full of candy and .....pay for it all with your EBT card.
If the government, who OWNS these programs, really cared there would be healthy food in school and there would be restrictions on EBT card purchases.
do you not get, it's the type of food, not the amount?
Wrong. There's no reason to double-dip, triple-dip, or more, from overlapping and duplicate Federal Nutrition Programs for the exact same daily meals. That's too much food. They're over-eating. And taxpayers are paying for that AND their subsequent obesity-related medical problems.
Reread my post with the stats:
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
Take a look at the obesity rates of the poor on food stamps compared to the poor who aren't on food stamps, and compared to the rest of the population:
Income-eligible children on food stamps: 24%
Income-eligible children NOT on food stamps: 20% Non-poor children who of course don't even qualify for food stamps: 13%
Income-eligible adults on food stamps: 44% obese
Income-eligible adults NOT on food stamps: 33% obese Non-poor adults who of course don't even qualify for food stamps: 32% obese
It certainly does appear that the children of poor and low-income families who receive free school breakfast, lunch, etc., program meals, regardless of whether they get food stamps, are being overfed.
Additionally, the USDA OIG (Office of the Inspector General) has found that a full 59% of families on Food Stamps also double-dip and triple-dip, or more, free food benefits from major Federal means-tested free food programs for the exact same daily meals:
Let that sink in... A full 59% of families on Food Stamps also double-dip and triple-dip, or more, free food benefits from major Federal means-tested free food programs for the exact same daily meals.
Are we really doing the poor any favors by causing their obesity by letting them double-dip and sometimes even triple-dip or more government free food program benefits, thereby enabling their overeating and ruining their health? They are disproportionately obese, and cost us a lot more tax money to pay for their obesity-related health problems, such as heart disease and diabetes.
The government contracted this work out. If you want to be mad, then be mad at your government.
You can walk into a gas station convenience store and buy soda, monster energy drink, a bag of chips, ice cream and an easter basket full of candy and .....pay for it all with your EBT card.
If the government, who OWNS these programs, really cared there would be healthy food in school and there would be restrictions on EBT card purchases.
I'm all for banning those types of food choices, however, time and time again, when it's proposed the Sarah Palin types cry out about an attack on freedom and choice.
It's a ticking time bomb and is going to explode our healthcare, but nobody want's to get real and talk about this.
Wrong. There's no reason to double-dip, triple-dip, or more, from overlapping and duplicate Federal Nutrition Programs for the exact same daily meals. That's too much food. They're over-eating. And taxpayers are paying for that AND their subsequent obesity-related medical problems.
Reread my post with the stats:
we've had this argument before and I don't care to waste my time on it again, so please keep on your day believing that the problem is that the poor have too much food. All those kale smoothies they consume all day long coming home to roost.
Pilot1: the evil terrible media bombards us with unhealthy food choices.
Also Pilot1 : that hypocrite Michelle Obama used the media to promote healthy food choices
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