Posted on 05/21/2014 3:08:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack fired back Wednesday at Republican-led efforts to weaken nutrition guidelines in the federal school lunch program that were championed by first lady Michelle Obama and enacted in 2010 when Democrats ruled the House.
Headlining the Organic Trade Association’s annual conference in Washington, Vilsack labeled as “outrageous” the GOP policy rider in the agriculture appropriations bill, and he urged the organic industry to fight back.
The rider would let schools facing financial hardships in the lunch program opt out of the rules. School lunch administrators and some big food manufacturers oppose the nutrition requirements as too rigid and say they are leading students to throw tons of fresh produce in the garbage can every day.
“The reality is, if we don’t do this we’re saying to the 30 percent of kids who are obese or at risk of obesity, ‘We’re not going to be here to help you,’ ” Vilsack said.
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What is “outrageous” is Michelle Obama getting involved in LOCAL school lunches! If the parents are too stupid or selfish to feed their kids remove them from the home! I would rather see them in an orphanage if parents don’t even provide basic needs for their children!
At least they would be fed and clothed and the welfare money wouldn’t be spent on drugs, gambling, nail salons, etc.
serve that crap in the Ag Department cafeteria
please
Yep, the students have already dropped their votes on USDA (obama) approved lunches into the garbage can.
They could probably retrieve some of the money wasted on this boondoggle by selling this school system garbage to a processor who can sell it as hog slop but most school admins as former teachers are not that smart.
I saw that so-called "White House Chef" (who really isn't) on a Food Network show featuring "lunch ladies." One of the ladies prepared a very hearty (looked tasty) pasta dish she makes kids who come into her school hungry on Mondays. The Chef said it was great and congratulated her on it. No way she could make that dish under his boss, Moochelle's, guidelines.
The part that pisses me off is that the people who are complaining the most are the CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO EAT THIS CRAP!
Any other time when “it’s for the children,” Dems bend over backwards to make this into something that must be done, two years ago.
But, because this is AGAINST Michelle’s personal pet project, the Dems will fight this down to the last starving child - even if they have to force feed them!
I will bet my lunch on it!
Did I miss it again?
The parents should be working with their local lunch programs. There are situations where enough parents got actively involved, and they can develop choices that meet the requirements and the kids will eat the food. Or they could just use some of the food stamps they save to buy food and prepare meals themselve since the program provides free breakfast and lunch for a lot of students.
The feral government has no Constitutional authority to be involved with education at any level. Everything they touch turns to poo.
What we're likely not going to hear from either Obama guard dog Fx News, or the Constitution-ignoring GOP about either the DoA or federal lunch programs is the following. With the exception of the federal entities indicated by the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the Supreme Court has officially clarified the following. in terms reflecting the 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty nonetheless, the Court has officially clarified that states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate agriculture, intrastate health issues, or intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936 .
Note that the Butler excerpt above also clarifies that powers not expressly delegated to the feds via the Constitution are prohibited.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Since it's an election year, we can expect Constitution-ignoring federal bureaucrats to be reminding low-information voters that conservative lawmakers are threatening federal spending programs. Sadly, such citizens are clueless to the idea that the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to establish such programs.
Make Vilsack eat that crap everyday! Either that or he should keep his big mouth shut.
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