Posted on 04/28/2014 4:02:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Schools across America will only be able to sell low-calorie healthy food, the Department of Agriculture announces.
The US is banning junk food in schools in an effort to cut the level of obesity in young people.
The ban by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will start on July 1 and will be nationwide.
According to the proposed ban, schools across the country will only be allowed to sell healthy foods such as fruit, dairy products, whole-grain foods, lean protein products and vegetables.
The staple food of a meal must not exceed 350 calories and snacks must be less than 200 calories.
All food sold in schools should not contain more than 35% sugar or trans fat - a type of artificial fat linked to coronary heart disease.
The ban will affect 100,000 schools across the country. In the past, only the states of California and Connecticut had similar rules prohibiting carbonated soft drinks and junk food.
The USDA defines junk food as being foods with a high calorie count and minimal nutritional value, such as candy, chips and french fries, according to nutrition expert Katherine Tallmadge
Parents warned the policy may prove unpopular with children, while some feel the rules go too far by banning all drinks over a certain size....
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minimal nutritional value
French fries?
This is an evil plot, EVIL.
Give ‘em back recesses with monkey bars and dodge-ball and the rest will take care of itself.
I remember our lunch room from the 50s through 1965. We were very fortunate that our meals were generally very good. I suspect they would not have met or even been close to meeting modern standards but they were nutritious and good to eat.
The one thing which really stands out was their rolls. You could smell the aroma when you entered the cafeteria and they tasted almost as good as they smelled.
We did sometimes have hot dogs or sloppy joes and it seemed like succotash was common.
What gives USDA the power?
Does it really have this power?
Who is going to enforce it’s edicts?
Is it time for the USDA to go bye-bye?
brown bag it!
Next, they’ll be checking what the kids bring from home in their lunchboxes.
The kids at a school last year that had lousy lunches wanted to know why they couldn't just eat a Rally's $2 meal plus the school's milk. Good question.
This is what happens when We The People let government into our schools.
The USDA has no constitutional authority over education or school cafeterias. This is nuts if the states don’t tell them to shove it.
lunchbox futures soar
Give the kids some hope — French fries to be returned in 2017...we know where this comes from.
How did we get to the point that unelected bureaucrats can diktate what our kids eat?
One pleasant thing I remember was several times a year we would get orange juice from the state. It was the best OJ I have ever tasted and they would let you drink all you wanted.
I suppose it was surplus as this was Florida but I am not certain where it came from.
The federal government knows best, dontcha know?
Does it really have this power?
Who is going to enforce it’s edicts?
Is it time for the USDA to go bye-bye?
Well I could write pages and pages on how the government strips people of their human rights and presumes they are acting under corporate law, but no one wants to hear about that.
So never mind.
“brown bag it!”
My nephew’s inner-city district DOES NOT ALLOW Brown bags in the elementary.
they say it’s “unfair” that some kids bring things the other students may want.
Like food that doesn’t taste like cardboard..
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