Posted on 10/23/2013 8:51:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
It looks like the days of trading half of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich for half of your best friend’s ham sandwich may soon be over if the federal government has anything to do with it.
A Richmond, Virginia mother received the following note, telling her not to pack a lunch for her pre-school age child. (source: Momdot.com)
Dear Parents,
I have received word from Federal Programs Preschool pertaining to lunches from home. Parents are to be informed that students can only bring lunches from home if there is a medical condition requiring a specific diet, along with a physicians note to that regard.
I am sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact Stephanie [redacted] the Health Coordinator for Federal Programs Preschool at [redacted].
Thanks,
Ms. [redacted]
Really???????????
As a family, we have made the decision to avoid a host of ingredients that are all found in abundance in school lunches. We don’t consume: ◾GMOs ◾Pesticides ◾Artificial colors and flavors ◾Preservatives ◾Hormone laden meat and dairy
But this week at my daughter’s school, the offerings are: ◾Corn dog or chicken nuggets, tater tots ◾Beef tostada boat or PB and J on white bread ◾Pepperoni pizza or fish sticks with roll ◾Pretzel sticks with cheese sauce or chicken teriyaki ◾Cheeseburger or breaded chicken patty with seasoned fries
There is not one thing on that list that falls into our normal diet. Add a side of rBGH-filled milk and a corn-syrup laden “fruit cup” and you have a complete nutritional disaster.
Why should the parents be required to bear the expense of a doctor’s visit to get the required note to be allowed to send healthful, homemade lunches for their children?
I’m glad you asked.
It’s all about profit and control.
Because, you see, the federal government must have all the little children on board in order to subsidize the farmers, make the rich richer, and make the poor sicker. Throw in some Obamacare to treat the resulting nutritionally-driven illnesses and it is a win-win situation – at least it is if you own a food processing plant, a medical facility, or a factory farm and you’re not the ones eating that so-called food.
Agricultural surplus is used to provide a base of food which is provided to the schools free of charge. It is then turned into processed junk for the public school system while the food manufacturers profit. The National School Lunch Program, enacted in 1946, has a mission besides just feeding hungry children: to subsidize the agricultural business by using up beef, cheese, and pork. The school lunches are loaded with these artery-clogging ingredients, in the most processed forms possible. According to an article in the NY Times, here’s how it happens:
The Agriculture Department pays about $1 billion a year for commodities like fresh apples and sweet potatoes, chickens and turkeys. Schools get the food free; some cook it on site, but more and more pay processors to turn these healthy ingredients into fried chicken nuggets, fruit pastries, pizza and the like. Some $445 million worth of commodities are sent for processing each year, a nearly 50 percent increase since 2006.
The Agriculture Department doesn’t track spending to process the food, but school authorities do. The Michigan Department of Education, for example, gets free raw chicken worth $11.40 a case and sends it for processing into nuggets at $33.45 a case. The schools in San Bernardino, Calif., spend $14.75 to make French fries out of $5.95 worth of potatoes.
The money is ill spent. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has warned that sending food to be processed often means lower nutritional value and noted that “many schools continue to exceed the standards for fat, saturated fat and sodium.” A 2008 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that by the time many healthier commodities reach students, “they have about the same nutritional value as junk foods.”
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Why is this allowed to happen? Part of it is that school authorities don’t want the trouble of overseeing real kitchens. Part of it is that the management companies are saving money by not having to pay skilled kitchen workers.
In addition, the management companies have a cozy relationship with food processers, which routinely pay the companies rebates (typically around 14 percent) in return for contracts. The rebates have generally been kept secret from schools, which are charged the full price.
So, lots of people are making money while feeding children nutritionally bereft garbage. People who don’t know how to cook are warming up processed junk to feed to kids who cannot afford anything better. That free lunch isn’t so free when you consider the high percentage of kids suffering from obesity and chronic illnesses due to their poor nutritional intake.
Public schools serve more than 4 billion meals every year — a number that would make many fast-food chains envious — and officials say all those lunches are contributing to the growing health crisis among kids. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity rates have doubled in children and tripled in adolescents since 1980, spurring an epidemic of type II diabetes, once considered an adult-onset condition. Obesity has also been associated with heart disease, arthritis, and certain cancers, and researchers have found fatty streaks in the blood vessels of children as young as 10.
“USDA needs to relate the current crisis in kids’ health to the meals that are being served, especially to poor kids, because that’s the population that’s most vulnerable,” says Antonia Demas, director of the Food Studies Institute, a child-nutrition group based in upstate New York. Because low-income children often eat both breakfast and lunch at school, “they get at least two-thirds of their calories from school each day, and they’re the population really showing an increase in the diet-related diseases.” (source)
As with anything the federal government touches, school lunches are cloaked in do-gooder benevolence, but they are a poisoned gift that benefits those who already have money at the expense of our society’s most vulnerable people: poor children. As our economy continues to decline, more kids will be forced to take these “free lunches” if they expect to have anything to eat all day.
So, now, at least one school wants children to have a doctor’s note to say no to the school lunch offerings of hormones, GMOs, preservatives, and grease. They must have the permission of a professional to avoid junk food. A parent’s good judgement is not sufficient, it seems, to make the healthy decision to provide a toxin-free lunch. Does anyone else see the irony here?
Kids are a target. The school system is trying to change the rules to force us to feed our children these food-like substances and to disallow us the right to nourish them as we see fit. By controlling the food that our kids eat, they are controlling their entire lives, right down to their ability to think critically, their future fertility, and their overall lifespans.
We are lathering our skin with petrochemicals. BPA is leaching into our food and beverages. Chemtrails and questionable farming methods are tainting the air that we breathe…it’s enough for a book, not merely an article. Additives like MSG and unpronounceable non-food ingredients are killing off our brain cells and triggering the growth of cancerous cells in our bodies.
And the result of all of this? ◾Disease ◾Obesity ◾Lethargy ◾Lower IQs ◾Shorter lifespans ◾Infertility
If it was only one toxic assault, or maybe even two or three, you might be able to write this off as accidental, something that just happened due to carelessness. But with all of the evidence proving irrefutably that the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe is making us sick, how can we form any other conclusion than the one that states, “This is a deliberate attack.”
All of the alphabet agencies that are supposedly there for our protection are merely arms of the giant propaganda machine. They are there to convince us that “someone” would put a stop to it if these things were actually bad for us. They are there to dispense a false sense of confidence in our governing bodies and to make us feel as though our health and safety is their first concern.
Moderation is not an option. We have to fight back through strict avoidance.
Think about this.
Would you willingly feed your child just a “little bit of cyanide”? Would you let them have a serving of strychnine “once in a while”? Would you purposely give them a cigarette just because you “happened to be out and that is what was offered”? Would you let them drink bleach from the laundry room as long as it wasn’t in an amount that would be immediately deadly and if it was diluted so that it didn’t burn their throats when they swallowed it?
Our politicians, government officials, and “protection” agencies are bought and paid for. They are at best, complicit, and at worst, the ones instituting this. (source)
A sick, fat, malnourished populace isn’t too likely to gear up for a resistance against the powers that be when it feels like effort just to go from the couch to the refrigerator. It’s game-on for the Great American Genocide, and today’s target is your child.
Schools throw out more food than they consume.
I feel like I’m living in the Soviet Union.
WTF is that?
Dear Parents,
I have received word from Federal Programs Preschool pertaining to lunches from home. Parents are to be informed that students can only bring lunches from home if there is a medical condition requiring a specific diet, along with a physicians note to that regard.
Dear School Administrator,
Tell the folks at Federal Programs Preschool where they can stick that instruction, your choice of locations. If you interfere with my child eating the nutritious lunch I prepared by following their directives, I’ll have your head on a stick.
Mom & Dad
So then can be feed a diet of government bullshit
My son would probably have starved under that rule. First, he thought standing in line was a waste of his short lunch time. Second, he usually hated whatever the cafeteria was serving. And third, he used to actually sell half the short turkey sub I would make him for a quarter. It would have cramped his money making ability. :)
Yes, you are right. We also have to worry about "which bathroom" Disgusting, but true.
With so many from the younger generations ‘allergic’ to Peanuts, how come the school can serve PB & Jelly on white bread sandwiches????
I don’t get it.
There were 4 kids in our family. There was NO cafeteria in either the high school or the one room school we all attended.
We made PB & strawberry jam sandwiches every day for all 4. It took a whole loaf of bread for this chore—every day.
There was cold fresh water brought in every day in the one room school, as it had NOT running water.
The high school had a dispenser which we could get a small carton of milk out of for 5 cents. We all were out of high school before a cafeteria was installed with a large addition to the school. The one room school was sold & turned into a house. It is still there today.
They really want to have complete control over the child: morals, religion, opinions, and food. The earlier they get them the sooner they can mold them into little conforming sheepish marxists.
Agenda 21?
government pre-school
why send your kid to that?
All sustenance must come from the state. Education, health care, food. Gets them used to depending on government instead of a loving family. Easier to start dishing out the Soylent Green.
I’d much rather send something from home that I “know” my child will eat for lunch. He may or may not eat what is offered in the school cafeteria, and sometimes I wouldn’t either. On those days should he just be hungry all day at school? Most of all, we as parents are “supposed” to actually raise our kids.. not the government
It seems to me that the liberal establishment feels very comfortable in their knowledge that they have educated, indoctrinated or otherwise conditioned a sufficient number of people which allows them to reach for greater control.
The conditioning, IMHO, is not what most folks think of when it comes to advancing their “progressive agenda”.
They are, and have been, conditioning people to accept “Uncertainty” about how they run their lives.
The concept is to remove the individual by undermining their ideas of self-sufficiency and replacing it with an all knowing and all caring Government.
If they are so concerned about the “farmers” why do we bring in all this foreign food, etc. instead of using what is grown/raised in the US?
Sadly, the reason that citizens get upset when the federal government oversteps it constitutionally limited powers by establishing such policies is that citizens are not being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
This is what you get when you let the govt overstep it’s constitutional bounds...utter nonsense.
Maybe all kids should be required to wear T-shirts saying “PROPERTY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT”.
Pretzel sticks with cheese sauce?
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