Posted on 09/25/2012 5:48:21 AM PDT by fungoking
In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.
Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.
"I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal," middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.
Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.
Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing.
One government official tried to put the blame on the students.
"One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they're still hungry is that many children aren't used to eating fruits and vegetables at home, much less at school. So it's a change in what they are eating. If they are still hungry, it's that they are not eating all the food that's being offered," USDA Deputy Undersecretary Janey Thornton was quoted as saying.
Ms. Thornton just put her finger on the problem. The government is trying to impose a new diet that children are not accustomed to. It’s not reasonable to expect them to either eat what the government deems healthy or go hungry.
Many will opt to go hungry, and that’s the government’s fault.
So we’re to believe that children who prefer chocolate syrup to vegetables are the ones who are right in this matter, eh? Okay.
It is stupid for schools to have meals for the children anyway. I never did. We went to Catholic school and my parents provided us lunch daily. Get rid of lunches and let the parents provide for their kids. It would say on buying supplies, heating and water and the cost of the kitchen staff.
Michelle Obama is a nutjob —> proof: hummus and black bean salads for elementary school children ... gawd !
I think that they are presenting the smuggling as an unintended consequence.
No, you are to conclude that the government is overreaching and becoming more of a nanny state everyday.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. You want better lunch, pay for it yourself.
Hummus and Black Bean salads??
I disagree with the federal government having any involvement in grade school education, but I wouldn’t say it is the school’s fault if the kids are hungry because they won’t eat food. If parents provide a healthy dinner at home, and the kid won’t eat it, do we say it is the parents’ fault that the kid is hungry?
My 2nd grader has been complaining since the first day of school about the menu. She said the portions are much smaller and the food is nasty. She’s bringing now.
When I was in school one of the few things that could rouse us to political activism were crappy school lunches. I remember when Jimmy Carter bailed out the turkey farmers and we had to eat some form of processed, reconstituted turkey product 4 days out of 5. SDS had nothing on us as to the howls of protest we were putting up.
“So we’re to believe that children who prefer chocolate syrup to vegetables are the ones who are right in this matter, eh? Okay.”
No, we are to believe that parents and children are to be free to decide what they eat without a fat, Marxist FLOTUS making that decision for them.
Were I a parent of a hungry child, paying for strange crap we don’t eat, I would prepare a tasty, nutritional lunch every day and dare the school to interfere with my parental right to do so. Too bad for the other children who are forced into the government gulag at lunch time.
So has mine. They come home starving!
Thanks to the Food Nazi’s and Reich Marshal Michelle O-Bozo, we now have “food speak easy”; do the Coded Knock twice on the door and give the password.
Face it: you hate it because Michelle Obama did it. If it had been Laura Bush, you'd have much less issue with it.
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