Posted on 02/03/2023 10:46:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - School meals for millions of children in the United States would include less added sugar, more whole grains, and lower sodium content under new standards proposed by the Biden administration on Friday.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the updated standards, which would be rolled out over the next several years, were essential to tackling health concerns like childhood obesity and to preparing young people for adult life.
"This is a national security imperative. It’s a health care imperative for our children. It’s an equity issue. It’s an educational achievement issue. And it’s an economic competitiveness issue," he said Friday on a livestreamed event announcing the standards.
About 30 million students eat school lunches and 15 million eat school breakfasts each year, according Department of Agriculture data.
The Biden administration committed to updating school meal nutrition standards as part of its strategy laid out at a conference on hunger last year.
Under the proposed standards, by fall 2024, schools would need to offer whole grain products. By fall 2025, there would be limits for high-sugar products like cereals and yogurts, added sugar in flavored milks, and sodium. Future years would see additional limits on added sugar and sodium.
The Obama administration hiked standards by requiring schools to serve fruits and vegetables every day and offer more whole grain foods. Under the Trump administration, some of those requirements were rolled back.
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They should make it nutritious for pigs because the children just throw most of it in the trash and if it doesn’t govin a landfill it is sent to pig farms. I have been in school cafeterias at and after lunch. They walk by grab the best tasting food and throw any fruit and the little milk cartons directly into the trash. If there is any consolation to the fact that they are throwing away money that they will have to repay in the future, there it is. You can tell them but they won’t listen or understand or care but their lives will suffer.
Many school lunches contain scant if any protein.
They are depriving kids of adequate human nutrition.
Scenario:
Welfare Momma has 4 kids all in school.
She gets EBT cards that include 3 meals a day for 7 days a week for all 4 kids. That is 21 meals X 4= 84 meals.
THEN-—Those SAME 4 kids get at least 2 meals a day at school. 4 X 2 X 5 = 40 meals.
THOSE kids get no exercise to speak of & they are fat.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ll point out that school lunches aren’t supposed to be eaten. They’re designed to subsidize food producers, regardless of whether any of the food they produce actually gets eaten.
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School lunches are a parent’s responsibility. The same is true with education. Abolish government schools and there are no more school lunch programs or illiterate, lazy ass, woke teachers grooming children.
I agree. The Feds need to stay out of school lunches. Remember pictures of those awful, paltry Michelle Obama school lunches?
They probably want their big, fat noses in it so they can try to make more people send their kids with lunches packed from home and then they can pocket some of the funds designated for school lunches.
Just speculation, of course, but that seems to be how this administration operates.
Another mooch failure.
Boy, they are desperate to prop this creeper up.
What in the world does “economic competitiveness” have to do with school lunches?
Is tightening school nutrition going to be like when MOOCHELL was in charge and most students either didn’t get lunch or pitched it in the garbage??? I saw pictures of their meals and I, myself, would not have touched it. Some of it looked like something I had already eaten.
I remember seeing the photos of some of the schools lunches during the Obama years. There wasn’t anything attractive for the kids and they refused to eat those meals. Stupid idea for the federal government to get involved!
a potato each if we are paying for it!
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That was good enough for my dad and all my 9 aunts and uncles. No one reported my grandparents to child protective services over it.
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