Posted on 02/08/2010 1:06:43 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the administration will seek changes when Congress overhauls the Childhood Nutrition Act.
"Our children deserve better nutrition, and our country's better and brighter future depends on it," Vilsack said. "And with the reauthorization of the Childhood Nutrition Act scheduled this year, there won't be a better time than now to act boldly."
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What else is illogical is the fact that many of the sweets including soda are made with corn syrup, especially HFCS. If that is responsible for weight gain as the food police in government claim then why are they forcing us to subsidize corn? The hypocrisy and stupidity from these people is never ending yet they believe they’re smart and everyone else is dumb.
RE: “breakfast? wow, talk about letting the government raising our children. stand up parents !”
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Los Angeles Unified Schools, with some 85% minority student make-up, has for a long time served breakfast as well as lunch to the masses — on taxpayers’ dime.
A friend of mine who teaches in the trenches, the worst schools, claims that those kids are all getting the food. What’s interesting to him is that he routinely sees those same kids herded over to the nearest McDonald’s or whatever right after school is out. The parents take them there and somehow manage to pay for the food unless that’s on vouchers, too!
Oh, and lest I forget, many many of those elementary grade kids are already quite overweight!!! How much food do they need, anyway? They are probably not getting proper nutrition but they sure are stuffing their fat little faces.
Did Obozo already include this order in his current Five Year Plan, or is this something he just wants to add to his next one?
Oh come on, those small businesses will just blow all their profits in Vegas /sarcasm off
Ban waffles.
We also need to ban his Sec’y of Education and his Safe Schools Czar.
A warning of more to come if the healtcare bill passes. The government would be even more involved in controlling your life.
Exactly. Our Marxist president can’t resist, even in a small-ball, Clinton-Morris triangulation ploy, trying to slip in a Soviet gotcha.
Why stop at breakfast and lunch?
Communists. They will never stop.
See my post #71—same kind of deal you are talking about. Once these programs are started, they will never be repealed. No Republican would have the guts to do it. No it’s just a matter of expanding across the board.
The 1/2 black, skinny version of Mike Huckabee, I see.
More free school lunches and breakfasts - that ought to help - more fat and garbage on a plate for kiddos.
True.
My HS did this (20cough) years ago. Banned the juice machine because of the "High Sugar Content".
Kids cut class (!) to walk down to the local convenience store and buy soda (!) instead. It was cheaper than the machine, anyway.
Some kids, though I can't even conceive of such a thing (/s), would pick up a pack of smokes, too, and grab a butt on the walk back to school.
Unintended consequences, and all that. :-)
The same Constitution Obama swore an oath to uphold carefully enumerated the powers granted Congress.
Children or adult nutrition is not among Congress’s “herein granted powers” enumerated in the Constitution.
However, an administration bent on promoting a socialist agenda can attempt to make damn near anything their business, if you allow it.
What an idiot. Doesn’t he know who gets the profits from those vending machines? Many times it is the school or the PTA or the student council.
He is just ridiculous. Banning vending machines won’t do a lick of good. However stocking them with yogurt, fruit, juices and bottled water as well as healthy snacks could be debated school district by school district.
OBAMA LEAVE YOUR HANDS OFF OF THE STATES. WE DON’T WANT OR NEED ANY MORE GOVERNMENT OR POLICIES OR AGENCIES THAT AFFECT THE STATES. JUST LEAVE US ALONE AND GO GOLFING.
"Who really benefits from the ostensible push for improved nutrition in the schools? Think purple -- as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union..." who are now pushing for reauthorization of LBJ's Child Nutrition Act, which gives subsidized meals to an estimated 30 million kids.
According to one SEIU bigwig, “A more robust expansion of school lunch, breakfast, summer feeding, child care and WIC is critical to ... providing fair wages and healthcare for front line food service workers."
Michelle adds: "There are 400,000 workers who prepare and serve lunch to American schoolchildren. SEIU represents tens of thousands of those workers and is trying to unionize many more."
The SEIU is working through a front called the "Campaign for Quality Services," which, Michelle reports, "is clamoring for 'the right to sick days and training' for school food-services workers," and is "casting food-services workers as indispensable saviors" -- who, if they have their way, will expand from school breakfasts and lunches to dinners and entire summers' worth of government trough-slopping. In every sense.
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