Posted on 09/09/2014 9:22:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An overwhelming majority of parents — including most Republicans — back federal school nutrition standards, a new poll found.
The findings released Monday by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Heart Association stand in stark contrast to a partisan spat in Congress over the Agriculture Department’s regulations.
More than seven in ten parents back national standards for both snacks and meals in schools. The poll found that 75 percent of parents believe salt should be limited in meals and 91 percent support requirements that schools include a serving of fruits.
When broken down along party lines, the poll found that more Democrats – 84 percent – and Independents – 72 percent – support the standards than parents identifying themselves as Republicans.
But 56 percent of the GOP parents surveyed favor nutritional standards for both school meals and snacks, according to the poll.
“It shows that a majority really agree about these healthy nutrition standards in schools,” said Jessica Donze Black, a child nutrition expert at Pew.
The survey of more than 1,000 parents with kids in public schools comes as districts around the country work to implement the new limits on fat, salt, and calories in foods and drinks from vending machines, school stores, and a la carte lines in cafeterias.
The USDA’s “Smart Snacks in School” regulations follow a slate of new standards for regular school meals in concert with first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to counter childhood obesity.
Congressional Republicans have assailed the regulations as an unwarranted government intrusion on a matter best left to families and local schools. Critics say the caloric limits are leaving some students hungry.
We are sooooo scrooooowed!
Nanny State PING!
DEFINE “nutrition standards”....when my grandson was in 1st grade he would eat the tater tots, and that was about it...sooo, I maybe can see how this is true....but, then, I think getting rid of school lunches except for the VERY poor is a better idea.
If the First Transvestite supports it it’s wrong and not good for kids.
Don’t believe it. First look at who conducted the poll. Then look for the internals. If you can find them.
The AHA has morphed into political nanny state organization. No way I’d trust this poll with them involved.
Also, it’s none of the federal government’s damn business anyway.
I would love to see the exact wording of the question.
Do you prefer reasonable and healthy nutritional standards or would you rather have you children turn into 300 pound tubs of goo that will never be loved by anyone and therefore you will be left without any grandchildren?
Mrs. Republican voter: don't you WANT your kids to have nutritious meals?
Sure.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Click
Pew reports that republicans just can't get enough of Michelle's meal plans.
In fact Pew found out that republican voters are completely out of touch with "mainstream America" and that Rush Limbaugh is bad, and so is Fox News.
Let me see the questions. Did they ask do you approve of banning bake sales and pizza etc. Or did they ask, do you think salt intake should reduced in school meals. Liberals are famous for this.
I wouldn't eat the crap they had in the one in high school 60 years ago and brought my own lunch.
The lower grades didn't serve food, just sold milk.
the problem here is the people who answer gov’t polls. they are already clueless.
We definitely need higher standards for school lunches, but the feds are the last people who should be setting them.
It really should be the parents who set the standards, but given the way things are, parents have almost zero influence.
Quick research of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
From Michelle Malkin, 2011.
Obamacare waivers... At least one eyebrow-raising waiver recipient – the left-leaning, nationalized health care-promoting Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – has direct ties to the White House. Obama health care czar Nancy DeParle sits on the foundation’s board of trustees.
Thanks for the ping!
They no longer serve ‘milk’. They serve 1% or skim milk
And even then, “I think school lunches are too salty” is a far, far cry from “I think feds should be telling my district what they’re allowed to sell kids to eat”.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/Assets/2014/09/KSHFNationalSurvey_raw.pdf?la=en
note the disconnect on questions F5a. & F5b. Then look at F10
Ridiculous. Plain "manufactured consensus."
Most parents of grade school children aren't old enough themselves to remember who was president before Clinton. All they 'know' about nutrition is low salt, low fat, low sugar, yaddayaddayadda.
They have yet to figure out that no two people (especially children who develop at their own pace) have identical nutritional needs at any given age, despite similarities.
Try again, only poll the grandparents and check those results.
There shouldn't be any school lunches period. Then again there shouldn't be free condoms and free abortions either, but lunches came first.
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