6 States, DC Sue Over Changes to School Lunch Rules
Associated Press,
by
Larry Neumeister
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/3/2019 6:05:10 PM
NEW YORK — Six states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying it weakened nutritional standards in school breakfasts and lunches when it relaxed the requirements affecting salt and refined grains last year. The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court asked a judge to overturn the changes, saying they were carried out in an arbitrary and capricious manner. The government "significantly weakened" nutritional standards for sodium and whole grains, according to the lawsuit, without giving the public a chance to comment on them and in opposition to nutritional requirements for school meals set by Congress.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/3/2019 6:07:02 PM (No. 22396)
Where are the P & B sandwiches?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/3/2019 6:12:41 PM (No. 22394)
I think our modern "federal judiciary" properly should be limited to resolving questions no more complex than what should be in school lunches.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/3/2019 6:17:53 PM (No. 22408)
Remember looking in the cafeteria trash cans after lunch and then tell me how delicious they were.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
qr4j 4/3/2019 6:22:12 PM (No. 22411)
Why don´t states just require parents to send their kids to school with SACK LUNCHES? But you say not everyone can afford such a home-packed meal? If folks cannot afford PB&J then how were they ever gonna afford Obamacare? How do folks afford every other stinking tax under the sun.
The Federal government has no business dictating what kids are served in school so long as it meets the health standards restaurants must maintain. And typically local enforcement takes care of restaurants.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/3/2019 6:24:28 PM (No. 22410)
Where is the stabing of the plaintiffs? They are free to impose harsher standards than those set by the federales, therefore they are not affected?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Janylou 4/3/2019 6:37:35 PM (No. 22409)
I would think it would be far better that kids are actually eating their lunch than the dumpster eating it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/3/2019 6:40:29 PM (No. 22413)
If all students are required to eat the same federal mandated lunch, nobody will try to steal (bully) it from the wimps because then you´d only have twice as much inedible paste as you had before.
Fiendishly clever, these socialists.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/3/2019 6:50:42 PM (No. 22404)
Number 1..... this isnt, nor should it ever have been a federal issue. This is, or should be a state issue only.
2. Federal requirements are MINIMUM standards. The local jurisdictions are free to implement higher standards unless a LAW specifically prohibits it.
3. In my "common sense" opinion, these states dont have standing. Save the legal fees and purchase some arugala.
4. Any attorney bringing the case should be disbarred for legal harrassement/incompetence.
5. Any judge that doesnt throw the case out on its face should be removed from the bench for abject stupidity.
That said, some liberal judge will proceed for purely political reasons, because Trump.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/3/2019 6:55:06 PM (No. 22403)
So do what you want, fools. You are a state, use your own standards for the poor slobs in your grip.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jinx 4/3/2019 7:00:47 PM (No. 22407)
Let them, the politicians, eat it first.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/3/2019 7:05:21 PM (No. 22399)
So we have lowered our standards to suing over salt. Literally, over salt. Something essential to human life nd we are suing over it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hoosier 4/3/2019 7:22:13 PM (No. 22402)
Way back in the fifties, my mother sent me to school with 35 cents so I could buy the school lunch. I usually bought a cherry pie and a container of chocolate milk instead. I grew up OK.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/3/2019 7:32:43 PM (No. 22398)
Moochelle’s institution of the new rules was not arbitrary and capricious?
What rubbish. The kids won’t eat the stuff. Even when it’s free.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/3/2019 7:33:28 PM (No. 22414)
Headline should read:
6 Democrat States, Democrat ruled DC Sue Over Changes to School Lunch Rules
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jimincalif 4/3/2019 7:42:43 PM (No. 22406)
6 states tell court they need the federal government to tell them what to do!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/3/2019 7:53:25 PM (No. 22397)
Good grief. Schools have been feeding kids for years and years without problems before the obamas showed up. We really don´t need the government to be up our butt 24/7 telling us what and what not to do. If those schools want to serve that type of grain then do it. What do they need? A note from their mother?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
IdSpud 4/3/2019 8:28:38 PM (No. 22412)
At my grandson´s school, there are kids who can´t afford lunches so they are on the free lunch program. Yet, they have the latest thing in basketball shoes and the latest version of smart phones. It´s the priorities parents put on where they want to spend their money. Parent´s choices are often not on what´s best for their families, but on how they want to appear. SAD.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/3/2019 8:31:56 PM (No. 22416)
Seeing all those urban porkers populating the schools makes me think the school lunch, breakfast, and dinner program is very heavy on bread and potatoes and lacking on any protein.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mackrand 4/3/2019 8:32:03 PM (No. 22405)
Sounds like collusion to me!! Or ignorance!!
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Busybody do-gooders insist on telling you what your kids eat.
I´d love to tell them what to eat.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/3/2019 11:31:44 PM (No. 22395)
The states and districts can serve whatever they think they should. What a waste of resources and money suing the D of A.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/4/2019 9:22:29 AM (No. 22415)
#12, I went to school with a daily 35 cents, too. You bought cherry pie and chocolate milk. I hoarded my lunch funds until the weekend when I could buy Fats Domino 45s with the money. I also grew up just fine.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/4/2019 11:54:46 AM (No. 22400)
Close down the Federal Dept. of Ag, and Dept. of Education. Then you can do whatever you want, on your dime. These Departments are nothing more than Bureaucracies set up to redistribute Federal tax dollars.
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Yeah, remember those lunches the kids wouldn´t eat?