>>It also, for the first time, gives the federal government the authority to regulate the food sold at local schools, including in vending machines.
During the signing ceremony for the law, Mrs. Obama said the federal government has a responsibility for what children eat at school. “When our kids spend so much of their time each day in school, and when many children get up to half their daily calories from school meals, it’s clear that we as a nation have a responsibility to meet as well,” she said.
“We can’t just leave it up to the parents,” Mrs. Obama said.<<
If it wasn’t real, i would swear it was satire.
2 points. First one, I hear our local public school cooks are m.a.d.. They have to document everything, they have to offer the veg or whatever of the day first and the child must take it to get the other items. I hear the grade schoolers receive 2 chicken nuggets and the high school 3 chicken nuggets. Most of the first choice goes into the...wait for it...Trash! #2-I told my wife the other day this all started when parents began putting their kids on the ‘free’ school bus some 60 to 70 years ago. So...we get what we wish for.
Why is it up to the FedGov to decide what kids eat?
We need to dump the Dept of Education now.
That idea has worked so well with teaching sex education, moral values, etc. Of course, this woman who can only boast a failed career as a lawyer and a job that she was able to get by being married to the right person is now qualified to make pronouncements about nutrition!
My husband is retired so he is at home in the afternoon and has started watching Dr. Oz. I have Monday afternoons off this semester, so I was home today while he was watching. I usually like Dr. Oz, and today's show was OK. It was the promo for tomorrow's show that got me. His guest will be - you guessed it - Michelle Obama, the nutrition expert. I sort of yelled at the TV that she is unqualified to make pronouncements about the nutritional needs of the family dog, much less about those of American school children!