When we will stop these cretins?
This bill was passed in 2010 but the effects begin next school year.
MAJOR ACTIONS:
| 5/5/2010 | Introduced in Senate |
| 5/5/2010 | Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Lincoln. With written report No. 111-178. Additional and Supplemental views filed. |
| 8/5/2010 | Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. |
| 12/2/2010 | Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 264 - 157 (Roll no. 603). |
| 12/2/2010 | Cleared for White House. |
| 12/6/2010 | Presented to President. |
| 12/13/2010 | Signed by President. |
| 12/13/2010 | Became Public Law No: 111-296 [Text, PDF] |
In the 1960’s in grade school in Mesa, AZ (before the Feds took over completely) a teacher used to inspect our trays at the exit door. If our veggies were still there, the teacher would send us back to a table until we ate them.
We just stuff the veggies into our milk carton.
Local schools boards need not attempt to state their preference...Kathleen Sebellius and Moochelle will make the big decision on everyone's behalf.
Local schools boards need not attempt to state their preference...Kathleen Sebellius and Moochelle will make the big decision on everyone's behalf.
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Passed unanimously in the Senate, 264-157 in the House.
So yes, your rino Senator voted for it.
Typical liberals - they identify a problem and come up with the wrong solution - to fit with their agenda!!
Children will pitch food they hate. Children need safe neighborhoods to play outside after school!! Boys need to run around and create sand lot games ad infinitum from dusk to dawn.
Safe neighborhood will occur when a father is married to the mother of his children and cares.
The democratic social justice plantation is the root of this problem.
The vegetables will create stinky garbage - more work for the garbage union.
And how many local whole or 2% milk distributors will be put out of business because of this DC sanctimony?
Boycott the gubmint skules. Find a good, Catholic school and run to them.
Orange leafy vegetables?
When the federal government can micromanage your kid's lunch and tell you what he can and can't eat, there is not much else that is not within it's gargantuan, grasping maw!
In 1776 the Americans had enough of King George. When are we current Americans going to have enough of King Gorge?
take your veggies and shove em.
I want my Pizza
Elana Kagan just got her answer for why “boatloads of money” from the federal government ain’t “FREE”.
It was usually meatballs, chicken or fish, plus a small mixed salad, plus mixed vegetables ~ usually soy beans plus parsnips plus carrots ~ all chopped up neatly. There's a juice drink, or milk, and a bun if you want.
If you were confined to a Swedish hospital that's what you'd get, and if you were in school, or many factories, that was it. You'd sit at communal tables.
More recently they've lightened up and allow more variety, but substitutions must be of equal or better nutritional value.
So, that's Sweden. Still, not everybody eats that diet ~ nor can they. But, it could be worse and that's where "the standard meal" came from.
Here in America it's not "worse" ~ in fact, it's better ~ too good ~ and something like "the standard meal' could be pushed off on the kids in school only with brute force.
This is just another reason to abolish the public school system.
This is satire, right?
Between not eating or Ding Dong or an apple...wild rice or pizza...orange juice or low fat chocolate milk...all tough choices. (Invest in black market food suppliers)
Wonder if they force feed kids with an IV when they can’t afford to pay the fine.
Wait till there is no food, period.
Methinks a bunch (tons?) of fruits and veggies are going to wind up in the trash next year.
They may force the kids to take it. But they can’t (at least for now) force them to eat it.
Another of the zillion laws we’ll need to repeal next year.
Federal idiots. Where to begin?
First of all, the fedgov should not be requiring kids to buy fruit. True, they say fruit OR vegetable, but fruit has a high sugar content. This sugar triggers the production of insulin, the fat-storage hormone, in the body to eliminate high blood sugar and store fat. Fruit, therefore, actually can CONTRIBUTE to obesity.
Second of all, whole grains doesn’t cut it. For example, the glycemic index of whole wheat bread is only a little lower than the high glycemic index of white bread. Those “healthy whole grains,” especially wheat, can cause blood sugars to skyrocket, causing, you guessed it, insulin-driven fat storage and obesity. Since most whole grain stuff is wheat, the kids are still screwed.
Orange and green vegetable, and the trans-fat ban, are OK, but how many kids are going to pick the vegetable over the sweet, tasty fruit?
End result: the kids will still be fat. Thanks a lot Moochelle.
A real school lunch would emphasize meat, cheese, veggies and maybe even eggs, and it would lose most or all of the whole grains.
Of course we could just LOSE the school lunch program and let parents pack the kids’ lunches, the way it was meant to be in America.
Nanny State PING!
I never bought the school lunches - always brought my own or went to McDonalds or Burger King. Are the kids allowed to bring their own lunches? Are they going to monitor those as well?
They have no idea what people are talking about. They don't see any out-of-control federal government intruding into the most remote corners of our lives.
They think any complaints on that issue are nothing but right wing paranoia, or worse.
Am I correct in assuming that students won’t be allowed to pack lunches with them?