[sphinx]

"It's a big issue, and it's very hard to get our hands around it," said School Board member Todd Howard, who suggested "trash-cams." "They have to take (the vegetable), and then it ends up in the trash can, and that's a waste of taxpayer money. It's also not giving students the nutrition that they need."

Hard to understand? I see a grant opportunity here. I think I'll type up a proposal for a multi-year international comparative study on why kids throw away cafeteria vegetables. Should be worth a couple of million.

This is an ancient issues: should schools feed kids what they WILL eat, or what they SHOULD eat (but will, in fact, throw away). There have always been Brunhilde-type cafeteria ladies trying to force feed the veggies. The only thing different now is that we have a busybody, reflexively coercive regime in DC that is trying to impose compliance by imperial edict.

[markomalley]

The only thing different now is that we have a busybody, reflexively coercive regime in DC that is trying to impose compliance by imperial edict.

I wonder how long it will take after the beginning of his second term for the USDA to mandate the closure of all restaurants and the demolition of all home kitchens...

...after all, they can better enforce healthy eating if all of the serfs report to government feeding centers to do so in a supervised fashion.