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Snacks: The USDA's Solution To Student's Healthy Lunch Complaints
ABC News, by Amy Bingham
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Posted By:PChristopher, 9/27/2012 1:22:42 AM
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| According to Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the solution to the growing grumbling over re-vamped school lunch menus boils down to a good old fashioned snack. School lunch trays are a bit lighter this year after Congress-approved calorie limits on school lunches went into effect in August. The new regulations, which were championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of her "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity, have inspired protests and even a video parody from students who claim the reduced lunches are making them go hungry.
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Comments: The solution is to get the USDA and the rest of the Govt. OUT of schools and the bulk of our lives in general. All they're doing is conditioning young minds to more government control instead of learning how the government is, or should be, controlled itself.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Phosphene, 9/27/2012 1:33:57 AM (No. 8892584)
Underfeed kids at school and they'll stop at Burger King after school or stuff their face with some easy to prepare junk food at home. Go away, government.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
4Justice, 9/27/2012 1:47:59 AM (No. 8892595)
When I felt unsatisfied by a meal, I found myself more than making up for it with junkfood or candy elsewhere. I bet some enterprising kids will start black markets on the side. The kids will end up even fatter and less healthy than before.
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Lucky4, 9/27/2012 2:03:35 AM (No. 8892608)
So now I am paying for my kids lunch, (at least 3.00 min) and a snack at least 2$ so that is 5$ a day or 25 a week to feed my kid if I do not want to make him lunch? That is no bargain.
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King of all trolls, 9/27/2012 2:18:19 AM (No. 8892614)
Washington cannot run the Post Office, something it actually has constitutional authority to do, yet here we have Sasquatch and her toned arms trying to force her sick, twisted mental problems regarding food on our defenseless children. Women, are you going to let Washington anorexics raise your children for you? It is a shame so many women have been so easily conned by these gadflys.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 9/27/2012 2:30:36 AM (No. 8892623)
Black markets have already begun, #2. Chocolate-flavored milk is no longer allowed. One young man smuggled in a bottle of syrup, and was selling it by the squeeze.
I would rather see my kids drink chocolate milk than no milk at all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
KTWO, 9/27/2012 2:44:10 AM (No. 8892629)
Applications for School Snack Czar now being taken.
Short hours, roughly 1 to 3 pm on weekdays. About 39 weeks per year. Must hate children.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Spidey, 9/27/2012 3:31:22 AM (No. 8892650)
Hopefully angry parents translate into Romney votes. On the other hand some parents will go along just so they don't have any involvement on raising their own kids.I marvel at how conservative parents cherish their kids and certain liberals simply use them as meal tickets.
The liberals don't want any adoptions going on except with gays.There's tons of childless couples who would love the opportunity to adopt a kid and rescue them from their plight.There's no way the left will allow white couples to adopt a Haitian orphan for example.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
4Justice, 9/27/2012 3:40:34 AM (No. 8892652)
#7, that is, unless the white couple is from Hollywood...like Angelina and Brad.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fireman28, 9/27/2012 4:35:44 AM (No. 8892665)
Thanks # 7, so right.
We watch ABC in the a.m. because of good local weather reports.
All week they have been pushing the show Modern Family like its Father Knows Best. Gay agenda everywhere. Disgusting.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Janjan, 9/27/2012 6:46:38 AM (No. 8892772)
Pack your kids lunches and put the school cafeteria out of business. Stand up America.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 9/27/2012 6:55:11 AM (No. 8892787)
Hopefully the students are learning a valuable lesson - free from the propaganda supplied by 'educators' - about government rationing in the midst of plenty. See also: Obamacare.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
southernboy, 9/27/2012 8:36:19 AM (No. 8892995)
Whatever happened to 'local school boards?' You remember! Where parents and respected leaders of the community were elected to set the policies of the school, hire and fire the teachers and principal and maybe even hire a dietician to operate the cafeteria? Now we have some un-elected volunteer fool in the White House wanting to show her power by decreeing hummus will be a staple food in school cafeterias across the nation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
nonsense, 9/27/2012 9:26:11 AM (No. 8893135)
Fat Vilsack and very large Mooch have no problem starving 32 million school students in this country. How arrogant these people are. Vote them out in November before they come for your grocery store choices. That is next on their power control list.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mickturn, 9/27/2012 10:11:00 AM (No. 8893279)
Here we go, eat your peas, lettuce and other green stuff (batteries included) and we'll provide candy and green drinks (Mountain Dew) to wash it down with...ain't we great!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
80coyotekate, 9/27/2012 10:46:24 AM (No. 8893397)
Trucker Observation: College students who vote should take notice. This is what Moochelle Democrats plan for the rest of your life. They tell you what to eat, where, when and how. They are closet control freaks that ingratiated themselves into college life to get your vote not to better your life.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hadass23, 9/27/2012 11:00:22 AM (No. 8893448)
#10
In Texas the Feds put lunch monitors in schools to inspect lunches prepared at home.
They then took away any lunch they felt was not fit and forced the kid to go hungry or eat the federally approved food.
Big brother is here stumping on you rights to raise your child.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 9/27/2012 11:06:09 AM (No. 8893467)
In the family are in-laws who are staunch democrats. They love to eat (unhealthy) and it shows on their every square inch. Wonder what they think of this new food nanny nazi. They don't care if we've a communist in office. They didn't care that we had a liar in office (and that said liar lost his law license) They don't care that the world is burning around them. But food...now that might be another story indeed. This might be that red line prissy prizzy talks about.
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