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Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunches going to the pigs — literally
EAG news.org ^ | April 1,2015 | KYLE OLSON

Posted on 04/01/2015 9:10:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – There’s one group of young eaters who like Michelle Obama’s school lunch program: pigs.

New Mexico’s Galloping Grace Youth Ranch is accepting fruits and vegetables thrown away by students at several elementary schools in the Rio Rancho area and collects some five tons per week.

Speaking of the pigs, goats and chickens gobbling up the students’ castaways, Wade says, “If you think about it, it’s a fresh salad bar every day. Fruits and vegetables and they love it.”

To underscore the point, he’s talking about the farm animals, not the school children.

The goats prefer romaine lettuce, some pigs like grapes while others will eat “anything.” The chickens like the dinner rolls.

Earlier this year, a New York district estimated its students throw away 85 percent of their fruits and vegetables.

Some 3,000 pigs at a Rhode Island hog farm scarf up uneaten fruits and vegetables, too.

The pigs are enjoying “half-eaten tuna sandwiches and other food scraps students discard during their lunch periods” as part of a new recycling program established by the town of Cumberland, according to WoonsocketCall.com.

Two Rhode Island districts – North Smithfield and Burrillville – that are sending their scraps to My Blue Heaven Farm. Both districts are participants in the National School Lunch Program, which is implementing the hated federal lunch rules.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: education; michelle; mobama; publicschools; schoollunch
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To: American in Israel

Moocheles daughters have a top notch chef at Sidwell to feed them.


21 posted on 04/01/2015 10:45:46 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: econjack

Moving on up!


22 posted on 04/01/2015 10:48:54 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Hojczyk

Bad idea, the pigs will suffer from malnutrition and the Fat-Back buys on the stock market will collapse.


23 posted on 04/01/2015 10:59:48 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Hiddigeigei
When I was in the army, while in the States, you had to separate your edible garbage from other trash when leaving the mess hall.

Generally speaking, garbage is the wet, edible remains of foodstuffs. Trash is the non-edible, dry remains. Thus, the non-bony food remains are suitable for pig food and the rest goes to the landfill.

24 posted on 04/01/2015 11:09:27 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: lurk

Hooray for the kids.


25 posted on 04/01/2015 11:14:46 AM PDT by jayrunner
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To: T-Bird45

It was along time ago, but if I remember correctly, the barrel was marked “EDIBLE GARBAGE.”


26 posted on 04/01/2015 11:26:53 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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