Posted on 02/18/2012 10:01:49 AM PST by AU72
AB 1678, would ban mobile food and beverage trucks within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary schools. The bill seeks to ban mobile food and beverage vending within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary schools from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. when schools are in session.
The bill was introduced by Bill Monning (D-Carmel), and already given support by the California Food Policy Advocates, which focuses on low income familes' access to affordable and nutritious foods. A statement from Monning's office reads in part: "Mobile food vending poses a threat to student safety as well as student nutrition. Mobile vending near school campuses incentivizes students to leave school grounds, which increases students' exposure to off-campus hazards such as heavily trafficked streets."
So, here's the part that has food truck operators and fans worried, food trucks from almost all of California's urban and suburban cities. The bill is designed to force school age kids to purchase state and federally subsidized on campus food, that is prepared by unionized food handlers. So, what's really going on here? Well, the unions get more dues for purchasing more politicians, the politicians control of another slice of you and your children's lives and liberties while adding another level of bureaucracy, the working taxpayers get shafted again, and a raft of entrepreneurial, non-unionized small businessman gets legislated out of business. And all of this is justified in the name of protecting the children.
Call it another hard left win-win-win, if and when the bill is passed. Who are the California Food Policy Advocates, who pushed to introduce this wonderful plateful of bloody Democratic tartatre? Let's follow the money. A few of the CFPA's "Key Funders" include George Soros's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the California Community Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. p>
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As a former resident of San Diego, I can honestly say that the best Mexican food I've ever eaten was prepared in the back of a taco truck. No joke.
Food trucks are GReat places to swap gunfire and drugs in the Bay Area.. but won’t this mean school employees choices will be adversely affected if they have to walk half a mile for lunch?
Nanny Staters Gone Wild!
They would rather feed the kids the crap sloped out by lunch lady Doris than let a small business make money.
This may or may not be true but the biggest “threat” to our kids are the public schools. IMHO.
The politicians and “activists” of California are the real threat.
This is a great idea. It won’t stop students from rejecting the ‘nutritious’ food choices that many Kalifornia school districts insist on offering.
But it will give them some exercise, walking five football fields over and back to the food truck. That’s about 3/5 of a mile every day and probably more exercise that they get otherwise.
Chalk another one up for the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Same here. Some of the freshest, best-tasting Mexican food I’ve had came from a taco truck or stand.
This should be further stimulus for the growing black market in junk food that is already flourishing at Kalifornia skoolz.
Yes these trucks are very popular, biggest part of them or ran by Illegals.
Hello, is that the open-minded and tolerant left attempting to ban something yet again?
Don't convicted child rapers only have to stay 1,000 feet away?
Yes, eat those greasy section and formed chicken nuggets containing beaks, feathers and whatever.
God forbid a child eats something the gov’t(or SEIU goons) haven’t prepared and served....Gotta have the States stamp of approval
Wow, so when the kids won't eat the cr@p served in the school cafeteria and the government food police confiscate the lunch the parents provided, CA nanny-staters think it will be better for the kid to go hungry!!??? That's a GREAT education policy they have there!!
Yup. And they don’t care if the kids eat their govt lunches or throw them away completely because they just won’t eat them.
You know the schools will get cops to harass the trucks and claim they were within 1500 feet. They will have to be well over that, so the kids are going to get even more exercise than you think.
Well DUH! Which is more dangerous???
With all the problems in our state, the loop I and my family use on our belts is the thing these legislators are most concerned about.
Can’t express enough how much contempt I have for the California Legislature.
Over fifty years of Democrat leadership, the state in it’s current condition, and the Republicans seem unaware that this could be used as a campaign topic.
Very demoralizing...
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