USDA to oversee school snack food: Senate ag chair (More OBAMA MARXIST BS ALERT)

Reuters ^ | 6/9/09 | staff

[pissant]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department would be given the power to regulate all food sold in schools -- including vending machine snacks -- when Congress renews child nutrition programs, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday.

Chairman Tom Harkin said he hopes the committee will start work on legislation to reauthorize school lunch programs in October or November, with a goal to conclude the work by the end of the year.

"I can tell you it won't be this month," Harkin told reporters who asked when work would begin. He said precedence must go, for now, to his work on health care reform and on drafting the annual federal spending bills.

Agriculture Committee work on child nutrition will begin with a draft that gives the USDA the authority to oversee all food in schools, so nutrition programs are not "undermined" by junk food in vending machines, Harkin said at a confirmation hearing for the head of the USDA's nutrition programs.

[pissant]

WOW. Is there anything these scumbitch marxists aren't going to control?

[muawiyah]

Doncha' know the same local people who vote for these pukes are too stupid to deal with what goes into local vending machines in local schools.

BTW, with this going to USDA I think I'll see if I can't get all that stuff with poisonous wheat and wheat byproducts replaced with tapioca and rice concoctions.

[eggman]

The new zero tolerance policy will include expulsions for bringing non-approved snacks to school. That candy bar in your kid's backpack could earn him a week suspension.

Then they'll institute a no junk food zone within 500 yards of the school buildings.

[freespirited]

I see it as an opportunity to teach children that unfortunately there are people who want to deny them simple pleasures like a chocolate bar ... and that those people are called Democrats.

You cant start driving that message home too early.

[JLLH]

Thank God for private schools. We do as we like.

[goldi]

public schools = government schools.

[pissant]

Ever hear of the 10th Amendment?

[dforest]

Mandate this kids eat broccoli bars, carrot curls, and arugula crunch.

You cannot force people to eat what they hate.