Is THIS the person who should be giving nutritional advice??
Posted on 02/15/2017 4:05:43 PM PST by lowbridge
Oakland schools partnered with the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) to fight global warming by making student lunches climate-friendly.
FOE gave kids a lunch menu designed to eliminate foods it says are “unsustainable for our planet.” The new menu features far less meat and more plant-based food. Any meat or cheese the school did use came from “pastured, organic dairy cows.” The student’s lunch menu went from beef hot dogs and pepperoni pizza to vegan stir fry tofu and vegan tostadas. The new FOE-approved menu served meat and cheese-less frequently and reduced the portion sizes.
“This is a landmark moment for school food,” Jennifer LeBarre, head of nutrition services for Oakland Unified School District, said in a FOE press statement. “We were so excited to see how the data showed that we could reduce our carbon and water footprint by serving healthy, delicious food –– like the vegetarian tostadas with fresh made in-house salsa, that kids absolutely love –– all while saving money.”
The district and FOE claimed the lunch program was healthier than before, but only on the basis that food from plants is typically healthier than meat. The study justifies its health claims by stating average poultry consumption fell. FOE did not undertake an actual study into whether or not the lunches improved student health.
FOE says total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the school lunch program declined by 14 percent. The total change is equivalent to taking roughly 127 cars off the road for a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) official calculator. The activists also claim lunch program costs fell 1 percent.
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They cut the cheese? Oh No!!
Well, they won’t have enough energy to riot.
Poor kids, where do the get good protein if they are already malnourished at home? Surely not from peanut butter. Soy? Many people are allergic/sensitive to that, too.
How much do you want to bet, most parents knew nothing about this ‘improvement’ being implemented? The School District says ‘Whose kids? OUR kids!”(not the parents).
Brain Power: Why Proteins Are Smart
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200301/brain-power-why-proteins-are-smart
1. have a RIOT on their hands
or
2. 100% absenteeism until this GRAVE evil is corrected!
Hitler should be happy with the new menu.
Will Ma Chalmers please pick up the white courtesy phone? Ma Chalmers ...
Love, Ayn
“We were so excited to see how the data showed that we could reduce our carbon and water footprint by serving healthy, delicious food –– like the vegetarian tostadas with fresh made in-house salsa, that kids absolutely love “
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WHICH DATA? The one you got out of thin air? These idiots..
The Oakland Federal Building is right there in town:
WHY NOT require all employees working there take public transit to work..?
I’m sure they’ll ALL be delighted.
Seems very reasonable.
Is THIS the person who should be giving nutritional advice??
Every day you would have THOUSANDS of people taking public transit.
Great idea..!
I could see a former control freak PHB-ette who was obsessed with how underlings lived every moment of their lives would probably kill to be in charge like that.
She could easily be Ma Chalmers lite.
This tells anyone all that they need to know about liberal ideology. Nothing, not even the lives and health of children matter to them. The nutrition of children is taking a back seat to a theory whose adherents are forced to doctor data and exaggerate to keep it alive. This is truly despicable.
The district and FOE claimed the lunch program was healthier than before, but only on the basis that food from plants is typically healthier than meat. The study justifies its health claims by stating average poultry consumption fell. FOE did not undertake an actual study into whether or not the lunches improved student health.
and it did reduced c02 emissons....................
FOE is Friends of the Earth
Just think what might happen if school lunches were eliminated.
Sounds like a Moochelle Obama school menu.
Let FOE fund the lunch program....
‘Let them eat cake.’- M. Antoinette
she obviously likes to eat, so there’s that.
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