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Obama signs child nutrition bill
CNN ^ | Dec 13, 2010 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 12/13/2010 9:37:13 AM PST by Innovative

President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of child nutrition standards Monday, enacting a law meant to encourage better eating habits in part by giving the federal government more authority to set standards for food sold in vending machines and elsewhere on school grounds.

Among other things, the $4.5 billion measure provides more money to poor areas to subsidize free meals and requires schools to abide by health guidelines drafted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To help offset the higher cost of including more fruits and vegetables, the bill increases the reimbursement rate for school lunches.

The bill is about "giving our kids the healthy futures they deserve," the president said during a bill signing ceremony at a Washington elementary school. "Right now across the country too many kids don't have access to school meals."

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; deficit; federalism; government; nannystate; nutrition; obama; obamacare; schoollunches; spending
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And it's the government's job to tell what our kids what they should eat and hand it out to them. (/sarc)

Pretty soon the government will tell all of us what we can eat and we will only be allowed to eat what they tell us...

1 posted on 12/13/2010 9:37:15 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Where did this come from? I thought there wasn’t supposed to be any legislation getting through until the tax bill was voted on.


2 posted on 12/13/2010 9:40:18 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Innovative

Yes, elementary school aged kids are high in cholesterol. They are much more protein-y as they mature.


3 posted on 12/13/2010 9:40:51 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
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To: Innovative

Okay, when will they make it illegal for fast food restaurants, pizza joints or sandwich shops to open up within 1,000 feet of a high school? Because my alma mata is right in the middle of Malden square.


4 posted on 12/13/2010 9:41:56 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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"Right now across the country too many kids don't have access to school meals."

Bullstalin. Breakfast was added and some schools now must provide free meals even in the summertime when there is no school offered.

5 posted on 12/13/2010 9:44:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: a fool in paradise

Sheesh. You think that is bad. Some school offer Dinner too. It is so sick I can’t tell you. I am so sick and tired of feeding all these brats and their parents with food stamps. The kids get a 3 free meals at school so the parents don’t even have to spend the food stamp money on food for them. Of course more alcohol for the parents.


6 posted on 12/13/2010 9:47:11 AM PST by napscoordinator
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STOP! Child Nutrition Act a scam

Aug. 2, 2010 — looks like they passed it under the radar

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-minneapolis/stop-child-nutrition-act-a-scam

Some tidbits of info from HR 5504

The word “energy” is used 7 times. “Energy Star” is mentioned twice. (Energy Star was created by John S. Hoffman under the Clinton administration. Hoffman helped make Energy Star a part of the EPA after securing a patent on high efficiency turbine products and is a partner of WorkSmart Energy Enterprises.) Why the focus on energy use in a nutrition bill?

Section 246 on page 170 outlines the “Green Cafeterias Pilot Program.” Why isn’t this its own new bill?

The bill establishes new grants for school districts that enact higher oil, grease, and fat recycling as well as purchase Energy Star qualified products.

Subtitle C beginning on page 149 adds the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Section 231 provides breastfeeding support in the WIC program.


7 posted on 12/13/2010 9:48:03 AM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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To: madprof98

STOP! Child Nutrition Act a scam

Aug. 2, 2010 — looks like they passed it under the radar

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-minneapolis/stop-child-nutrition-act-a-scam

Some tidbits of info from HR 5504

The word “energy” is used 7 times. “Energy Star” is mentioned twice. (Energy Star was created by John S. Hoffman under the Clinton administration. Hoffman helped make Energy Star a part of the EPA after securing a patent on high efficiency turbine products and is a partner of WorkSmart Energy Enterprises.) Why the focus on energy use in a nutrition bill?

Section 246 on page 170 outlines the “Green Cafeterias Pilot Program.” Why isn’t this its own new bill?

The bill establishes new grants for school districts that enact higher oil, grease, and fat recycling as well as purchase Energy Star qualified products.

Subtitle C beginning on page 149 adds the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Section 231 provides breastfeeding support in the WIC program.


8 posted on 12/13/2010 9:48:11 AM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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School lunches will only consist of a slimey mound of soylent green.


9 posted on 12/13/2010 9:48:42 AM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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by giving the federal government more authority

Oh goodie. I was beginning to worry that the fed didn't have its grubby little fingers in enough of our lives already.

10 posted on 12/13/2010 9:51:19 AM PST by FourPeas (From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Ja 3:10)
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Link to the full text of the 256 page bill: HR 5504

http://www.schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/School_Nutrition/16_LegislativeAction/HR%205504.pdf?n=6104


11 posted on 12/13/2010 9:51:19 AM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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“Congratulations to First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and to the bi-partisan support in the Congress to pass the Healthy, Hunger Free Children Act. By passing a bill that addresses the nutritional quality of school lunches, an important step is being taken to give children choices that will make them healthier and more productive.”

-Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas 1996-2007


12 posted on 12/13/2010 9:53:24 AM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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I once saw healthy snack machines in a school. Hardly anybody ever used them and they were a financial failure. They eventually got rid of them and the “geniuses” who knew what was best for everybody were never held accountable for the waste. This was back in the 70s and I've heard of many others getting the same end result in passing years.
13 posted on 12/13/2010 9:55:17 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: roses of sharon

I never did like Huckabee — can’t imagine why is is one of the frontrunners of R presidential candidates — he has too many socialistic ideas that the government knows best.


14 posted on 12/13/2010 9:55:34 AM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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HMMM isn’t this interfering in private enterprise by over ruling the parents and thevendors choices? When did the governemnet get that kind of power? OTOH all it will take is a few parents to tell their kids that Obama is the one who took away the Twinkies and we have another generation of Conservatives.LOL


15 posted on 12/13/2010 9:55:39 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: Innovative

Well they gave us childhood obesity with the Food Pyramid.

Let’s give them another change, Okay?


16 posted on 12/13/2010 10:03:50 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: napscoordinator

Bet some of those households have cellphones and cable tv. I have neither.


17 posted on 12/13/2010 10:06:09 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: Innovative

in the coming year, will we the taxpayers will see the hefty mrs O and her chubby daughter Sasha sampling vegetables on every family vacation, instead of being featured shoveling ice cream down their gullets?

Enquiring minds want to know


18 posted on 12/13/2010 10:09:47 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: a fool in paradise

I would imagine you are right.


19 posted on 12/13/2010 10:12:03 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Innovative

20 posted on 12/13/2010 10:14:09 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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