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Feds to Use Social Media to Combat Complaints about Michelle O School Lunches
Free Beacon ^ | 5/15/15 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 05/15/2015 3:15:43 PM PDT by Nachum

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pushing back against a campaign criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules by showing one picture of a somewhat appetizing child’s lunch.

“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and in the digital age we have ample opportunity to document and broadcast every moment, meeting and meal,” wrote Deborah Kane, the national director of the USDA Farm to School Program, in a blog post Thursday.

“We have all seen those unappetizing photos of food served at school that quickly go viral,” she said. “A lonesome whole wheat bun atop a sad fish fillet; a mysterious-looking meat mixture served next to an apple. It’s natural to ask, ‘Is this what they serve for lunch!?’”

“No, it’s really not,” Kane said.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: complaints; education; flotusmichelle; foodpolice; lunches; michelle; newmedia; school; schoollunch
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To: Nachum

You're right....something is moving on your plate...

21 posted on 05/15/2015 3:34:09 PM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: Nachum
The pic at the link doesn't look that appetizing ... and it is served on Styrofoam?

Don't they know Styrofoam is a new evil that is destroying the planet???

Several baby carrots, a bread stick, and a blob of spaghetti and watery sauce.

The tray in the upper left has a blob of chocolate pudding.

Beautiful meal? Not really.

22 posted on 05/15/2015 3:36:04 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Nachum

Oh great, it will only cost $50 million in tax dollars. There needs to be a ban on propaganda spending. Standard white papers should be the extent of government information campaigns, anything further can be disseminated by others.


23 posted on 05/15/2015 3:37:02 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Nachum

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_Schoolyard


24 posted on 05/15/2015 3:37:57 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Nachum

“Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunches going to the pigs — literally”

“RIO RANCHO, N.M. – There’s one group of young eaters who like Michelle Obama’s school lunch program: pigs.

New Mexico’s Galloping Grace Youth Ranch is accepting fruits and vegetables thrown away by students at several elementary schools in the Rio Rancho area and collects some five tons per week.

“It’s really whatever they don’t eat coming off of their trays, so when they get up to the trash cans they will scrape it into one of our buckets that we pick up on a daily basis,” ranch CEO Max Wade tells KRQE .

Speaking of the pigs, goats and chickens gobbling up the students’ castaways, Wade says, “If you think about it, it’s a fresh salad bar every day. Fruits and vegetables and they love it.”

To underscore the point, he’s talking about the farm animals, not the school children.

Rio Ranch lunch The goats prefer romaine lettuce, some pigs like grapes while others will eat “anything.” The chickens like the dinner rolls.

http://eagnews.org/michelle-os-healthy-lunches-going-to-the-pigs-literally/


25 posted on 05/15/2015 3:39:39 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Nachum

“It’s natural to ask, ‘Is this what they serve for lunch!?’”

“No, it’s really not,” Kane said.”

Yes it is, you liar.

See all you kids getting served those tiny portions of horrible food? See? Your government is calling all of you liars.


26 posted on 05/15/2015 3:39:48 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lapsus calami

Yes.


27 posted on 05/15/2015 3:40:04 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: proxy_user
Picking a fight when you are outnumbered 100,000 to 1? Brilliant!

Not only are they outmanned, they are about to find they are outwitted.

Kids love social media. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram... they're able to instantly access a wide arsenal of social media. They're not going to be fooled by a phony advertisement of a great looking school lunch posed by a food stylist.

28 posted on 05/15/2015 3:41:11 PM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: Nachum

The children will be asked to report their parents to authorities if they hear anything negative about the government meals.


29 posted on 05/15/2015 3:46:18 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Nachum

Here come the Potemkin Village photos of alleged Moochelle Approved School Lunches.


30 posted on 05/15/2015 3:46:46 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: JPG

You're right....something is moving on your plate...


31 posted on 05/15/2015 3:47:19 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to targelationt the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: lowbridge

Prison food - it’s whats for lunch.


32 posted on 05/15/2015 3:50:00 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: TomGuy

The one at the actual blog post has a pic that I know I wouldn’t eat. Let alone a kid.


33 posted on 05/15/2015 3:51:17 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Nachum

The EPA should investigate Michelle’s food programs. Just the sight of some of those foods are enough to make you sick.

Whole-wheat as part of a fish sandwich? Damned! That’s as sacrilegious as putting ketchup on a kosher hotdog. It just isn’t done in a civilized society.

I’m sure that Michelle the Fat Belle and her children don’t eat this crap.

That last slide showed something that looked like a scene out of “Alien” and “Aliens”. Something deadly that hatched from those eggs and Kane’s chest.

Hey food server. I’ll have two of those Alien tacos and cup of blood to wash it down.


34 posted on 05/15/2015 3:52:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: BigEdLB
Yeah!! It's 'Cockroach Friday".

Sorry, kids, no seconds!

35 posted on 05/15/2015 4:04:32 PM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: lapsus calami

THEY ARE ALREADY HERE


36 posted on 05/15/2015 4:12:59 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: JPG

Isn’t that Michelle’s Momma?


37 posted on 05/15/2015 4:15:59 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: easternsky
 
 
Well, yeah - but I was talking about the latest topic for their trolling ops. Next week it'll be something else....
 
 

38 posted on 05/15/2015 4:16:20 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Nachum
Is it any wonder that the ONLY photo they could find of a decent looking lunch to post at the USDA website came from a Charter school, not a public school...

Worse, well...read for yourselves:

In my ideal world, the Internet would be abuzz with photos like the one above, also a school lunch featuring a fish fillet, taken at Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans. One of the first public schools to open in New Orleans post-Katrina, the mission of Samuel J. Green Charter School is to prepare 100 percent of its students for college, careers and a successful life.
Apparently the bureaucratic staffers at USDA don't know the difference between a Charter school and a 'public' school...

ROFLMAO

39 posted on 05/15/2015 4:21:17 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: BigEdLB
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
40 posted on 05/15/2015 4:39:49 PM PDT by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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