Posted on 03/05/2013 8:57:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Newly proposed federal regulations aimed at the snack foods and drinks served in the nation's schools could come with a hefty price tag.
The American Action Forum estimates the regulations, which include caps on serving sizes and calorie counts, will cost schools $127 million and require more than 926,000 hours of paperwork.
Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the institute, says the proposals amount to yet another unfunded federal mandate for state and local governments, "at a time when many of their budgets are still struggling."
The Food and Nutrition Service regulations would be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which says schools in at least 39 states already have some kind of snack food standards in place. Thousands of schools "have already taken voluntary steps towards meeting the proposed standards," the department said, adding that many of the schools have started making the changes with little or no impact to their revenue.
The new proposals come as a part of a second wave of regulations stemming from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Administrators are still working to comply with a number of other mandates that have significantly changed school food options in recent years. They include a requirement that each student take a serving of fruit or vegetable as part of their lunch or the federal government may not reimburse the cost -- driving up prices for both students and school districts.
But getting the healthier fare onto kids’ lunch trays doesn't necessarily mean that they'll actually consume the food. One West Philadelphia High School student told a local reporter that kids use the servings to play "food basketball," simply tossing away the fruit placed on their tray.
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Starve your children Nanny State PING!
“at a time when many of their budgets are still struggling.”
Fiduciary strangulation is part and parcel of a communist takeover.
Standard lunches for ‘standard’ kids. Hmm. The little 5’ 98 lb girl has the same ‘standard’ caloric requirement as a 6’2” football player . Yeah. That’ll work.
Hey, here’s someplace the feds can save some money.
Only a ‘cut back’ in government can cause increased spending.
Unreal.
Seems Malia Obama and her buddies lunching out in NYC and having a good time were not held to having to eat packing material snacks below 200 calories.
This is freaking nonsense. These are growing kids and as such need more calories than an average adult. I would like to see that bloated b!tch Moochelle and her two spoiled git survive a week on what she expects public schoolchildren to eat. Reason #754 why people need to homeschool their kids, if they are able to do so. Just further evidence of the subversive plans to indoctrinate America’s schoolchildren. If that doesn’t work, then weaken them physically so they are unable to resist.
That is exactly what has been happening.
So the older/bigger kids have been paying extra for more food
Thanks for the ping!
All I know is that the school my 4th grade grandson goes to no longer allows ‘seconds’. He is ready to eat a horse by the time school lets out—and he isn’t fat.
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