The National School Lunch Policy

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Because if there's one thing Americans really need, it's larger portions.

[Dinner]

Amen.

[DaShi]

Only in America would healthy food be a bad thing because a black woman supports it...actually there are probably a lot of other countries that would do the same thing.

[Fake Boris]

Kids aren't getting any smarter, unfortunately.

Singularly close to the truth

[pchang]

In this case, I wish we would copy the French. Here is a sample school menu from Paris:

http://karenlebillon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Menu-17eme-septembre.jpg

[Zevico]

The underlying premise of a school lunch "policy" is that obesity will be "solved" if one meal a day is prescribed by federal bureaucrats who know better than parents.

If one, why not all three? No wonder this policy is a failure. It doesn't go far enough to do anything, and if it did, well the US may as well be a police state if it was really going to start prescribing what kids have to eat for every meal.

The problem of obesity isn't going to be solved with national school lunches but with parents that ensure their kids eat well and acquire healthy habits. No more and no less. That the US Congress has bought into the notion of a federal school lunch policy is simply unreal. What a sheer waste of public resources.

[giblets]

Waste of public resources? They were already providing lunches at schools, they just changed it to make it healthier.

[regexcellent]

Yes, and that's the problem with the federal government providing these things. The first thing it does is "okay, let's take something states and localities do, and help them do it. We're not influencing them at all."

Then later it says "We're paying for this program, so now we get to decide how it's run."

That's why it's unnaceptable.

What's healthy for one child isn't necessarily what's healthy for another. The feds are fond of one-size-fits-all non-solutions to non-problems. I don't trust the judgment of the federal government one iota, especially not over your average parent, especially considering the blowhards in Washington have no direct reason to be interested in what happens to any individual child.

[Guynemer]

Some of the posts in this thread are just ****ing unreal.

[Fake Boris]

regX, what's wrong about the government governing?

[DinoDoc]

regX, what's wrong about the government governing?

Because the price went up and the students get less food.

[regexcellent]

regX, what's wrong about the government governing?

It's bad at it.

[Zevico]

Waste of public resources? They were already providing lunches at schools, they just changed it to make it healthier.

The federal government, entrusted with the future of hundreds of millions of people, is now concerning itself with the contents of a child's lunch box.

Are you seriously telling me you're voting for a congressman because of the contents of your child's lunch? Is that the factor that weighs heavily in your mind when you think of a federal congressman? The Democrats like peas but the Republicans prefer cheddar?

[giblets]

The federal government, entrusted with the future of hundreds of millions of people, is now concerning itself with the contents of a child's lunch box.

Are you seriously telling me you're voting for a congressman because of the contents of your child's lunch? Is that the factor that weighs heavily in your mind when you think of a federal congressman? The Democrats like peas but the Republicans prefer cheddar?

Has it occurred to you that Congress doesn't pass just one bill a year? And if Republicans want to give schoolchildren diabetes by paying for unhealthy lunches, that certainly doesn't make me more willing to vote for them.

[Dinner]

The underlying premise of a school lunch "policy" is that obesity will be "solved" if one meal a day is prescribed by federal bureaucrats who know better than parents.

You're obviously clueless because that isn't the "premise" at all. The idea is much like the first rule for doctors "first do no harm"; school lunches in this country used to be a doctor's worst nightmare wrt national nutrition and they're still pretty damn bad but now they're only bad instead of worst imaginable. That has nothing to do with your imaginary bureaucrats trying to tell parents what to do and everything to do with making sure the one meal per day schools are responsible for is balanced and nutritious.