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.
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?
Blatantly unconstitutional. The federal government has no such authority.
while I share concern for the health of children, that’s mostly, primarily the parents’ responsibility...If any school lunches are to be served, the local school can decide the menu. I can find nothing in the US Constitution assigning this duty (as an enumerated power) to the federal government in Washington DC. Nothing.
So now... all good intentions aside, we American taxpayers will have to sit back and witness millions more pounds of perfectly good (presumably) food being thrown into school cafeteria garbage cans...from coast to coast.... as so many of the kids just do not like Washington DC’s “healthy lunches”
and Washington DC KNOWS this will happen, there have been news reports from all over America about it....
Government school is child abuse.
Time to drop out of the USDA program. The calorie needs of healthy active children should not be suppressed because of some obesity “crisis” being manipulated by those who desire more control over the lives of our children.
How about the meals for the school athletes? Another example of broad brush government meddling into stuff they can’t possible know anything at all about.