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."
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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...
Where did this come from? I thought there wasn’t supposed to be any legislation getting through until the tax bill was voted on.
Yes, elementary school aged kids are high in cholesterol. They are much more protein-y as they mature.
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.
Bullstalin. Breakfast was added and some schools now must provide free meals even in the summertime when there is no school offered.
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.
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.
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.
School lunches will only consist of a slimey mound of soylent green.
Oh goodie. I was beginning to worry that the fed didn't have its grubby little fingers in enough of our lives already.
Link to the full text of the 256 page bill: HR 5504
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
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.
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
Well they gave us childhood obesity with the Food Pyramid.
Let’s give them another change, Okay?
Bet some of those households have cellphones and cable tv. I have neither.
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
I would imagine you are right.
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