- Joined
- Aug 26, 2007
- Messages
- 50,241
- Reaction score
- 19,243
- Location
- San Antonio Texas
- Gender
- Female
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.LOS ANGELES (CBS) —The revamped school lunches at Los Angeles Unified School District have won awards, commending them for improving the menu at the second largest school district in the nation. Too bad the students don’t agree.LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu « CBS Los Angeles
Rejecting healthful alternatives like vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles, students are throwing them in the trash by the thousands, bringing junk food from home and buying instant noodles and other decidedly unhealthy fare from the “black markets” that have begun to thrive at campuses across the district, according to the Los Angeles Times.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
I just do not get you sometimes Mr. V...
Are you happy about this because Mrs. Obama is promoting healthy eating and you wanna see egg on her face?
Or are you happy about this because in the United States 16 - 33% of under 19 kids are Obese today including over 1/3rd of the adults?
This is leading to increased health complications, lower life expectancy and becoming a massive burden on the health system which will lead to higher costs and premiums.
And here comes a public school, funded by the government, trying to promote healthier eating in a bid to curb these issues and here you are celebrating that kids and their parents are refusing to even try to make the better choice...
Yes in a free society I suppose you have the right to destroy yourself in any way you see fit... but we shouldn't be celebrating that fact.
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live
and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food.
How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things?
Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat.
What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.
How delusions, you claim "Healthier Alternative" but there is only the Government approved alternative, which has been solely rejected by the poor saps forced to eat crap food. An alternative implies choice.Go back and read my post again.
But actually read it this time.
I don't believe that, I've never believed that and I'm never going to believe that
In this case the school district is merely trying to promote a healthier alternative, and if kids choose to reject that again it's not something we should celebrate, no one is being forced or dictated to do ANYTHING.
It's hyperbole on your part.
No one is being force fed health foods.
Recess Makes Kids Smarter | Scholastic.comI'm sorry are they not being allowed to do that?
Obviously Gym class isn't strenuous enough now is it?Is the school not offering gym class?
Your reality is only offering "health foods" in school is just a choice for kids to eat smarter, recess is almost gone in many schools and just having a "gym period" counts as a workout.NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU SAY IT MR. V, IT DOESN'T MAKE IT THE.... *DRUM ROLL*
REALITY
When did eating junk fund and buying instant noodles make one an entrepreneur, especially one that deserves applause?
While I agree that people have the right to eat what they what, we are talking about children who are not yet fully emancipated. Unfortunately, their parents should be making healthier diet decisions for them, instead of a public school. Instead, we have to rely on a public school to help get children to eat healthier and when their attempt fails, they get castrated by an out-of-whacked "liberty lover". (Plus, no one's freedom is being violated).
In addition, unhealthy diets like the ones that OP is championing has spillover costs (i.e. negative externalities) which eventually leads to lost of productivity, increased sick days, and the public picking up the various health care costs for diseases that are completely unavoidable.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
I don't care whether kids bring in unhealthy food from home. That's on the parents. Nothing in this article indicates the schools are forcing kids to eat anything. The problem that was solved was the school offering only unhealthy, disgusting food to students. Our public schools shouldn't force kids to eat healthily, but they should certainly promote it.I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
From the examples listed in the CBS report, it seems the student's rejection of school food has little to do with the healthiness of the food and more to do with the genre. Vegetarian curries and tamales? Quinoa salads? Pad Thai Noodles?
The kids are probably seeing it and thinking 'Da hell is this ****?'
Just put less cheese on the pizza, use a higher fibre dough, and keep the fatty/greasy toppings to a minimum. Would be a drastic improvement over what a lot of schools push for lunches.
The same thing happened when Jamie Oliver fronted a similar campaign in Britain. Parents and kids complained and parents turned up at school with the old crap, intent on poisoning their kids with junk food. The schools stuck to their guns and slowly kids got used to the new, better food. No one's forcing anything, just recognising that someone has to start creating inventive solutions to the impending health crisis caused by the terrible, junk food diets of our kids.I don't care whether kids bring in unhealthy food from home. That's on the parents. Nothing in this article indicates the schools are forcing kids to eat anything. The problem that was solved was the school offering only unhealthy, disgusting food to students.
JUNK FOOD SHOULD BE OUTLAWED! Make everyone eat healthy! Cause their too stupid, Government is the way!
FYI, I'm applauding the kids that figured out selling food kids want to eat and making a profit is quite worthy of applause.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live, and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food. How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things? Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat. THAT would do so much more then craptastic food foisted by a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats.
What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live, and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food. How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things? Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat. THAT would do so much more then craptastic food foisted by a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats.
What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.
I'm not sure what the issue here is. The school offered only "healthy" choices. I can agree with that. The students rejected that and brought unhealthy choices from home. That's within their rights, too. Government didn't try to control anything. If they had, they would have PROHIBITED the students from eating anything other than the choices that they gave.
I have a different issue. I hate hearing that lots of this food was thrown away. Give it to folks who need food.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
Its like me with my mom. She is twice widowed and I help support her etc etc. You know what I NEVER buy her? Her stinkin cigarettes LOL This wont STOP her from smoking of course but i sure as hell wont HELP her harm herself.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?