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Topic: Soda, candy out under USDA´s
proposed school snack rules |
Soda, candy out under USDA´s
proposed school snack rules
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/1/2013 10:12:09 PM
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| The Obama administration proposed regulations Friday that would prohibit U.S. schools from selling unhealthy snacks. The 160-page regulation from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) would enact nutrition standards for "competitive" foods not included in the official school meal. In practice, the proposed rules would replace traditional potato chips with baked versions and candy with granola. Regular soda is out, though high-schoolers may have access to diet versions. "Although nutrition standards for foods sold at school alone may not be a determining factor in children´s overall diets, they are critical to providing children
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Comments:
The food Nazi´s march on! Thank you Mooch! How much will complying with this new 160 page regulation cost the taxpayers? This is beyond irritating. How much of those replacements will be thrown in the trash?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
turninggrey, 2/1/2013 10:18:31 PM (No. 9153370)
Say it ain´t so lofo! Enjoy the fruits of free goodies over freedom.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/1/2013 10:22:52 PM (No. 9153377)
I am sure glad I am old and no longer in school. I don´t think I can take much more of the fascist tyrants...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
CEP, 2/1/2013 10:47:00 PM (No. 9153403)
Enough already, make it stop. I am really sick of the government sticking its nose in everything.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HPmatt, 2/2/2013 12:11:34 AM (No. 9153469)
I thought schools are governed by states and localities, not the federal government?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/2/2013 12:16:29 AM (No. 9153471)
Do the teacher´s lounges have soda and snack machines ?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 2/2/2013 1:20:17 AM (No. 9153520)
Speaking for principals, they need the vending machine money for supplies and things not covered by state/county money.
Kids come to school with money, and they buy what they want to eat. They will bring it with them, and they will sell junk food to their friends if they want. This is a stupid rule.
Kids don´t like the food in school, so they take their free lunches and dump them in the garbage. Then they buy what they want to eat.
They have all the latest electronics, too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/2/2013 3:16:22 AM (No. 9153567)
Have you ever eaten baked potato chips? It´s like chewing on twigs from your back yard. The vendors can retaliate by pulling all their vending machines.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
provide, 2/2/2013 6:08:01 AM (No. 9153642)
Our local high school sells doughnuts in the hall before class to raise money for school programs. There is also a doughnut eating contest.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 2/2/2013 6:11:33 AM (No. 9153647)
JMHO, but we never had candy and soda machines in school and I remember how shocked I was to see them in my son´s school.
As to whether or not these same machines belong in the teachers´ lounge - they are adults while the students are still ´´children´´.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rakasha, 2/2/2013 7:17:47 AM (No. 9153684)
#4, That was before the states and local municipalities bought into the Common Core Curriculum to get all that ´free´ money from the federal government.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Muguy, 2/2/2013 7:26:30 AM (No. 9153698)
This proposal doesn´t have Moochie´s mug all over it....
Harsher rules and government over reach without the face and condescending disrespect of the Obamas...
This new marketing approach still wont´ work!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GardenGal, 2/2/2013 8:43:11 AM (No. 9153816)
Some enterprising kids will make a lot of money on this.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
califedup, 2/2/2013 10:09:57 AM (No. 9154057)
There is a simple solution for getting the communist federal government out of our schools. The states are hooked on the education money handed out by the federal government but this money comes with a myriad of conditions, regulations etc. In short it is how the federal government is able to excert so much control over the education system including mandating what is served to the kids in the cafeterias. The states need to refuse all education monies from Dictator Obama and the democrat communist party and regain control over their school systems. The republicans in Congress are not going to help take back our Republic and the only way to achieve this goal is for the states to start re-asserting control over their own territories. Another important step to regaining freedom is to refuse to implement the EPA rules and obamacare.
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/2/2013 10:16:48 AM (No. 9154072)
Agree w/ #12. ´´Psst - hey buddy. I got some good ´stuff´ today. Coca Cola, Mountain Dew, Snickers bars, and Jalapeno potato chips.´´
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