Junk Food Terminator - Arnie Action in Cali

[Pekka]

The Governator puts a stop on child obesity, and fights the junk food in schools.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CL34SO7.html

[mrmitchell]

This BS is going on in AR too...

In the end, schools will stop making money from vending, and taxpayers will have to make up the difference...

[TheStinger]

Oh yeah its a really bad idea to feed kids good food

[MikeH]

And it's a really bad idea to pay for education.

[Pekka]

yeah the billions of profits from vending machines outpay the billions lost in health care etc because of obesity and the illnesses it provides, adult diabetes and all those things.

Or not.

[chequita guevara]

Oh god! Oh no. Danm, damn, damn, damn!!!!!

I agree with Pekka! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wezil]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
This BS is going on in AR too...

In the end, schools will stop making money from vending, and taxpayers will have to make up the difference...

Is it non-taxpayers pumping coins into those vending machines? Where did the $$ come from?

[Pekka]

This brings about a good business idea. A business that would sell healthy food, but also good tasting food. You could compete with any of the dominating services such as Sodexo etc and still come up pretty high if you can put on a good show and catering, and bring the prices low enough. IT would be easy to campagn and promote it on that basis alone.

You could have lots of schools, work places etc taking your services, provided that you can compete with the prices.

Healthy image.

Then show how much it benefits companies to eat healthy, less sick leaves, more productive work, happier people and more productive minds.

It would make a killing.

Who is with me?!

[chequita guevara]

The problem is that the school lunch programs have always been about giving Federal dollars to big business, rather than feeding kids.

Plus, I don't think my school cafeterias are up to making decent healthy food.

[Pekka]

Right, I know it's business, that's why you have to become a business of providing the better option. And win in the business.

[mrmitchell]

Purchasing from a vending machine is a choice. No one forces students to do it, and schools make huge amounts of cash that would otherwise simply not be there. The profits fund technology, extracurricular activities, building improvements, etc.

Student obesity is an individual's problem, and schools already serve healthy lunches as it is...what one eats outside school is what makes the problem...

And it's a really bad idea to pay for education.

Don't get me wrong, I believe paying taxes is one's patriotic duty, but this is money that won't be replaced, people aren't anxious to raise taxes.

[Pekka]

ok rock on pepsi and coke I guess, they keep schools funded

lol

[Addled Platypus]

just a thought

should DINKS (dual income no kids ), pay taxes/fees to improve the educational system and if so how much.

I dont mind helping out in general, but they keep on taking more and providing less. I wish I could take all the money back and buy my own school system.

[Pekka]

All I'm going to say to this matter, that it's a sad sad situation, where some goddamn junk food provider or soda maker pays for your school stuff to such extent, that you are depending on it. And at the end, they're making money, while your kids just get fat and obese.

That's not a good deal.

Time to stop it.

[Japher]

I saw a study somewhere that pretty much concluded that students who have a healthy lunch behave and perform better in their studies.