Posted on 06/05/2014 7:07:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
First lady Michelle Obama and school lunch ladies used to be on the same team, but now they’re locked in a political war against each other.
For the first three years of Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, the School Nutrition Association, a powerful group that represents 55,000 cafeteria professionals, was a close ally in the White House push to get kids to eat healthier.
The group helped lobby for the legislation at the center of the debate: the 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, a law championed by the first lady that mandates more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and less sodium in exchange for more federal funding on meals.
Fast-forward to today: SNA is standing shoulder to shoulder with House Republicans, pushing to grant schools waivers from the requirements if they are losing money and aiming to relax the standards when the law is reauthorized next year.
“The current direction is very isolationist,” said Kevin Concannon, the Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for food and nutrition, in an interview. “It’s inexplicable and very unfortunate. Somehow their leadership decided that they’re just going to swing for the fences.”
The story behind the school lunch flip-flop is a complicated web of lobbying change-ups, industry influence and partisan posturing inside the Beltway. It also casts a spotlight on how difficult it is to make the economics of school meals work — and just how much resistance there can be to Washington directing nationwide change.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Nanny State PING!
Oh my...
For crying out loud. Don’t they have mirrors in the White House?
Thanks for the ping!
Somebody artistic needs to photoshop that. It looks like a face.
They were all removed via orders from the Giant Wookie.
Obviously no 3-way ones.
You know as much as I dislike her, and the way the govt. strong arms everyone. There is one sad truth.. Most kids these days are to inactive to burn off the junk food they are eating.
and that is governments business, how?
There is no petty when total state control of everything is the aim.
I don’t believe I said it was the Govts business...
In fact...her butt looks like the face of General Grievous.
I can see the cellulite dripping from moochelles fat ass & thunder thighs from here...... What an ugly fat ass, angry beeotch as our first lady. I hate to even call her “first lady” in any sense of the word.
But you did. You said "You know as much as I dislike her, and the way the govt. strong arms everyone..."
So... "As much as you dislike her" ... what?
You're directly implying that you believe she should be involved in this issue in this way.
Yeah, because they're not TELLING YOU what they don't like, right?
Oh I'm sorry, they are, but you don't like it. And if you don't like something... well... it simply doesn't exist.
And if it doesn't exist... then it's inexplicable.
Obamanation.
I agree with her there are a lot of lard @sses, I don’t she should be in charge of it..
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