Posted on 03/05/2014 3:35:37 PM PST by Uncle Chip
More than one million U.S. schoolchildren stopped buying school lunches during the 2012-2013 academic year, after new nutrition standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama took effect.
The Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency inside the federal government, told members of Congress in a little-noticed January 28 report that participation in the school lunch program declined by 1,086,000 in that one year, the biggest drop on record.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise its school lunch standards to bring them in line with a new set of nutrition requirements.
The first lady rolled out the law's final regulations in January 2012 with a presentation linked to her 'Let's Move!' children's health initiative. Changes took effect that fall. In the ensuing nine months, 33 states cited 'challenges with palatability food that tasted good to students' as one reason sales tumbled.
The stunning drop in cafeteria meals came despite annual increases in the number of children who receive free, taxpayer-subsidized lunches every weekday, the GAO report concluded.
One change in the nutrition standards, a reduction in the maximum calorie-count of each meal, came under fire from student-athletes at the high school level who complained that their bodies needed more food in order to sustain long workouts and build muscle mass.
At the same time, increases in fuel prices and varying weather patterns increased the wholesale cost of many of the fruits and vegetables that student found in larger quantities on their plates.
As a result, the new meals were also more expensive....
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Dayummm...that's the third iPad she's wedgeeed up this month.
Oh God!!!....must think of Reggie.....just keep thinkin’ of Reggie....must think of Reggie...just keep thinkin’ of Reggie....
MoBama hates your kids.
Wonder what they were having over at Sidwell Friends...hmmm?
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The Obama girls get have a staff to make their Wagyu Beef Hot Pockets from scratch.
Mrs. Great Leader has angered Big School Lunch.
They don’t like gruel?
How do you think tha fata## got that big? she had to have worked on it all through her school years. And now she denies others from achieving the same fata## she graciously adorns in the rear
LOL
That’s funny.
Already happening in Chicago.
:D
“These people are so inept”
That is an understatement!
“Don’t get between Michelle and a tamale” http://www.ihatethemedia.com/obama-warns-dont-get-between-michelle-and-a-tamale
“War on Children!” “
“Under her plan, Big Momma Obama starving children to death to cut down on cost of benefits.”
That is one way of losing weight......
Is there any way we can get the same standards imposed upon food-stamp recipients?
Grade 9 Wagyu Beef. $95.46/lb plus shipping.
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