Good for you!!!! And buy 10 and have your daughter had them out to her best friends. LOL
What a crock. Always some group out there trying to tell us how to live our lives.
And that damn Klintoon. He sure has one hellava nerve!
Posted on 10/06/2006 3:57:54 PM PDT by Panerai
5 major food companies agree to snack guidelines that would ban Snickers
Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton.
Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier — the latest assault on the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic.
“This is voluntary,” Clinton said. “They don’t have to do it. But they recognize the challenge we face, and they are helping us face the first step.”
Clinton said the obesity problem is hurting the American economy by contributing to high health care costs.
The agreement with Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Groupe Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. sets guidelines for fat, sugar, sodium and calories for snack foods sold in school vending machines, stores and snack bars. Those companies make everything from M&M’s, yogurt and granola bars to Frito-Lay potato chips, Snickers bars and canned soups.
Under the guidelines, most foods won’t be permitted to derive more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight.
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I love this. Will be a constant reminder to kids that Democrats are the Party of Evil and home of the National Nanny.
YES!
We just can't get RID of these people! ugh!
Wow, this will add to his great legacy. Along with school uniforms, midnight basketball and hunting down terrorist with lawyers. What a genius.
Good for you!!!! And buy 10 and have your daughter had them out to her best friends. LOL
What a crock. Always some group out there trying to tell us how to live our lives.
And that damn Klintoon. He sure has one hellava nerve!
Anything to get himself in an environment with young girls.
I'll buy Billy all the Big Macs he wants to eat,anytime -anyplace.
Islamofascists are trying to kill every American they can and these assclowns are screwing around over banning Snickers from schools?
For cryin' out loud!
Candy is not prohibited in her school, there are no vending machines, but most teachers have it in the classrooms, it's available in the cafeteria at lunch, and from the school "store."
I only used the Snickers name because it was in the article. The only time they are in this house is if my husband buys them, I can't stand them. I buy Milky Ways, Kit Kats, and Butterfingers most of the time....and always in 10 packs at the Dollar store :) They're bigger than the "funsize" but smaller than a standard one, and I find them to be just the right size.
Yep, he certainly has done more than enough to merit a long sentence. But does anyone have the guts to prosecute him? Why is he above the law?
To paraphrase Mark Levin on his radio show today, Clinton thinks he is doing great work to stop the "obesity epidemic." But he's never done a thing to stop the spread of syphilis!
Like this???
LOL
I was trying to think of a way to thumb your nose at the system! heh! :)
Yeah, taht's the ticket!
"Why is he above the law?"
I don't know. The man is as slimy as a snake, and twice as slippery, it would seem. I'd love to see him get his just desserts.
My understanding is that the schools that had coke and pepsi vending machines were paid thousands of dollars from those companies to have those machines. I am assuming Frito Lay and the candy distributors would have also paid $$$ to allow the vending machines to be in the schools. Question is, if this is true, how in the world are the school districts going to make up that money?
I feel sorry, not for me, but for our kids.
But what do you expect from a guy who was quoted as saying "America is all about reducing teen smoking"...
Meanwhile he was shoving a cigar in Monica Lewinsky's "hey, nanny, nanner" while working for US, with our tax dollars, in the Oval Office.
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