first lady michelle obama is expected to announce on monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and usda nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.
white house to put up to 5,000 salad bars in schools | grist
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first lady michelle obama is expected to announce on monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and usda nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.
white house to put up to 5,000 salad bars in schools | grist
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In other news, 6 months from now 5,000 salad bars will be found virtually untouched by school chidren.
You're seriously underestimating how Health Concious some kids have become.
While on paper this looks like a really really dumb plan, there is sufficient evidence to suggest a students eating habits, can have a serious effect on their ability to learn. If it could catch on, which you never know, we might see some serious positive effects.
On the other hand, again personal responsbility has to come in somewhere. But since when has offering choice been deemed a terrible idea?
You're seriously underestimating how Health Concious some kids have become.
While on paper this looks like a really really dumb plan, there is sufficient evidence to suggest a students eating habits, can have a serious effect on their ability to learn. If it could catch on, which you never know, we might see some serious positive effects.
On the other hand, again personal responsbility has to come in somewhere. But since when has offering choice been deemed a terrible idea?
You're seriously underestimating how Health Concious some kids have become.
While on paper this looks like a really really dumb plan, there is sufficient evidence to suggest a students eating habits, can have a serious effect on their ability to learn. If it could catch on, which you never know, we might see some serious positive effects.
On the other hand, again personal responsbility has to come in somewhere. But since when has offering choice been deemed a terrible idea?
"All this 'personal responsibility' stuff from the right - I can't help but wonder how many of THEIR kids would choose a salad over a slice of pizza?" - Glinda
You should let "THEIR" parents worry about it and not spend another second wondering about it.
Yeah, it's so ****ing heartless of me to forbid the gobbling of pizza and fries and soda with public funds. :roll: Oh the horror. Whatever will they eat??!
But their parents aren't worrying about it; they're too busy bitching that their tax dollars are being spent (a) to provide much needed food stamp benefits to the many millions currently without jobs, and (b) to offer their spoiled, non-personally responsible brats a healthy alternative for school lunch. God forbid their chunktastic rug-rats eat a 100% healthy meal from time to time. :doh
After the all-or-nothing hate fest witnessed here, I see no reason why I shouldn't insist that ALL pizza, and chicknuggets, and burgers 'n' fries, and any other sort of crap food offered in school cafeterias be completely eliminated from the menu. After all, my tax dollars are being wasted on all this **** food that the future leaders of my country are snarfing down in mass quantities, and I don't even have a kid.
You right wingers went on and ON about how completely unacceptable it is that a family feeling the devastation of the current economic downturn and in need of temporary food stamp assistance might bring home a few sodas every month for the kids; I have just as much right to bitch that your spoiled, whiny chunkettes are using my tax dollars to gobble up full-on garbage food every day at school.
Don't I?
To paraphrase someone else's eloquent prose:
The answer? Have a salad or starve, fatty.
You whiners need to teach your kids some of that good ol' rightie "personal responsibility" and forbid them from eating ANY of that school cafeteria fast food **** that's provided courtesy of my tax dollars. Tell 'em it's salads or nothing.
And when they don't come down with the deadly 'diabeetus,' you can thank me. :thumbs:
I'm sure you have all the data to back up the notion that the people who "complain" are the ones with fat kids, right?
1) If you're feeding the kids with food stamps [and/or MY tax dollars], then it's absolutely washington's [and/or MY] business what you use those food stamps [and/or MY tax dollars] to buy.
2) I said that giving kids foods like that can lead to them being fat and getting the diabeetus. This country is disgustingly unhealthy as it is, we don't need to be subsidizing little debbies any more than we already do.
1. It doesn't matter if the kids in question are fat or not. The underlying argument presented by the right-wingers in the Soda-buying thread is that "fast food and soda are BAD for kids and should not EVER be funded by taxpayers." Do you agree? If so, how can you condone taxpayer-funded school lunches that include any sort of unhealthy fast foods? You should be just as outraged as they were in the Soda-buying thread. Should we be surprised that you're not?
Here's a wild thought...why don't we actually address what's being suggested in this thread, which is not replacing any of the bad stuff but simply throwing more money at the whole situation pointlessly.
Here's a wild thought... why don't we completely eliminate throwing taxpayer money away on crap food for school lunches and give kids ONLY healthy choices?
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