Posted on 10/14/2021 5:11:22 PM PDT by blam
The Biden administration’s failure to successfully fight the coronavirus and the ensuing supply chain crisis has trickled down to school cafeterias, as food workers struggle to get meals for students on the table.
In Oakland County, Michigan, Sara Simmerman, a food and nutrition supervisor, said the district is still getting Little Caesars pizzas for its 8,600 students, but the rest of the supplies it needs are stalled.
A satellite kitchen got only 35 of 400 cases of food it had ordered at one point. A few days later, 700 cases arrived on one day.
“You never know what you’re going to get,” Simmerman said. “It’s amazing how many kids want to eat salad when you don’t have lettuce.”
The Guardian reported on the unprecedented lack of supplies for U.S. consumers, the media outlet advancing the Biden administration narrative that the supply chain issue is global, thus not the failure of White House policies:
Like most districts across the country, Huron Valley is facing unprecedented food and labor shortages caused by what supply chain experts say is nearing a “global transport systems collapse.” Experts say as the economy reopened after lockdowns, many industries – including those involved in delivering food and supplies to schools – have faced increased demand they can’t meet.
Many predict the backlog of orders could extend throughout the rest of the school year. Forced to adapt their meal programs to a grab-and-go system last year when schools shut down for remote learning, school nutrition departments are now scrambling to find menu items and enlisting front office staff and school administrators to serve meals. They’re adapting their menus almost daily, depending on deliveries, and putting off equipment purchases to make up for higher prices on food and supplies.
A nationwide shortage of long-haul truckers...
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The bastard has the compassion of a scorpion.
COVID didn’t crush the economy.
GOVERNMENT did.
Yep.
It shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility to feed kids. That’s what parents are for. If there isn’t enough food at school, maybe mom could whip up a peanut butter sandwich, an apple, and some snack to go with it.
Maybe eat at home or bring a lunch? That would be novel.
“...food workers struggle to get meals for students on the table.”
Huh?
You go to school to learn first of all, not eat. And what you eat, you bring with you to school.
That’s what it was for me. I somehow survived.
I’m not advancing school feeding programs. I am describing the Bastard-in-Chief.
Chili Mac is the one true food needed for development of strong minds and bodies.
In my opinion ;-)
Here in Texas pretty much every parent with school age children is being given food stamps. Those that already had them are given even more. How about they use that to pack their kids lunches?
But I guess that’d be too much “work” for some.
Coming soon to a grocery store near you
More fringe benefits from voting for Biden. Just remember, under President, prospering now. But who needs to prosper when they can starve, right? And it [starvation] is coming. It will just take it a while to get here. Before Biden’s term of Office is up, the supermarket shelves would have been fuller in Stalin’s Soviet Union than they will in Mainstreet, USA. The amazing fact about the 2020 election is that for the first time in History, the voters will actually get what they voted for.
Feeding kids is the parents responsibility.
Venezuela Redux
You should see the horrible lunches they serve where I work. I work in a very affluent and small New England school system. The company that they use for food services cannot secure their basic needs. The lunch today was a pre frozen chicken patty topped with minimal tomato sauce and three sprinles of cheese on a stale bun, plus broccoli on the side. And a clementine for desert. This actually was one of the better ones. The kids can’t stand it but eat it anyways because they’re hungry by the time lunch rolls around, and eyeing their lucky friends who packed a home lunch.
Yes I worked in a KinderCare in the 1980s for several summers in high school and we served the toddlers and children through age 10 Chili Mac every week! It’s an awesome kid-friendly and satisfying filling meal.
Poor little dears will STARVE!!
I guess 'Mom' doesn't know how to fix a lunch.
After all; it is the parents RESPONSIBILITY! to feed her child - not MINE!!
Eliminate the Food Desert!
The system ALLOWS this?
What about the self esteem of the starving ones?
Dammit! We can take away excess canyons and give them to the 'less fortunate', so you rich brats had better eat your lunch from home while riding the bus from home in the morning!
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