"It's for the Children" legislation.
Ha. Same stuff in our schools in Fox Valley in Wi.
Here's the joke. Machines do carry milk "Chugs" tons of sugar, fat. Also "sport" drinks full of sugar. But no diet soda. that would be bad....
I predict a seller's market for a budding entrepeneur who stocks up at the grocery store and has a big backpack.
How'd this crap get in the schools in the first place? It wasn't there when I went. They might as well go ahead and put video poker machines in there.
I don't think they should have vending machines in schools at all. And since the taxpayer is paying for the majority of the lunch cost in any cafeteria (all the labor, for example, irrespective of the ingredients), there's no reason the taxpayer should pay for crappy food on the front end and obesity-related illness on the back end.
We've run camps for as many children as use an elementary school cafeteria. It's not any more expensive or more difficult to serve a reasonably nutritious meal.
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Now they only have junk education.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Can World War II-style ration books and cards be far behind as a response to the "obesity crisis"?
Now--if they will just remove the crap from the curriculum, I'd say real progress had been made.