It’s not food that’s making our kids obese, it’s video games, computers, Television, MP3 players and smartphones...........
1) There's no constitutional authority for the federal government to be involved in what children eat for lunch.
2) It also defies common sense. Does it really make sense to have someone in Washington DC determining what is a proper lunch for a child in say, Oregon--3000 miles away? Isn't there some limit to micro-managing our lives?
Education official Debbie Squires in the MRC video looks like she needs somebody more knowledgable to plan HER lunches.
Bump
If my child went to that particular school, the next lunch would of been a Five Guys hamburger, fries, Little Debbie snacks, a Chocolate shake, a picture of a park they play at/burn calories, and a copy of the Constitution.
This kind of action from the government is a natural continuation of existing government health policy.
Instead of just providing information, government attempts to modify what it sees as risky behavior to a more healthy one.
The government has already be given the green light to do this w/smoking by heavy taxation, and regulation, such as prohibiting it in bars. It is even prohibited in open air in some places now, like beaches, or NYC’s sidewalk and park ban.
So don’t be surprised as government begins to tackle obesity. Heart disease is, after all, the number one killer. Much more than smoking related illnesses.
So if it’s ok for the government to try to keep people from smoking, it’s ok for them to try to keep people from bad eating habits with methods such as this article describes or with a soda tax.
What if they found cigarettes in that lunchbox? No problem w/the state stepping in in that case right?
I prefer that this kind of thing be dealt w/with the parents, not the state. But enough people have already allowed the state to step in for our own protection.
My Gawd, Man... we should be stampeding our representatives and blasting them... this goes way beyond the mandates of the Fed Gov... I will be blast my MO reps today!!!
I’d teach my 4-year old to say “Do you have properly executed search warrant?”
Just one more way that government schools resemble prisons.
Prisoners get state issued institutional food. Now kids get state issued institutional food.
The entire **goal** of government schooling is, and always has been, to produce compliant and docile prisoners of the state.
The law that allows the federal government to do this was passed recently. We should:
1) find a list of Republicans that voted for this, and expose them.
2) Find some Republicans willing to push for repealing this federal intrusion into local affairs.
Yes, in some limited cases, mom's have no other choice but in many if not most, moms in the work place are there to supplement income to buy more "stuff for their kids."
What kids don't need more of is "stuff" what they do need more of is - mom!
obama worshipper: “I’m sure they know what’s best. obama loves this country and is only trying to make it better for all of us. obama is good for this country.”
I refuse to speak to these idiots.
Nationwide practice based on federal guidelines.
Yes granny it is China.
Not yet...If 0 wins re-election...maybe