The National School Lunch Policy

[snoopy369]

I'm not disagreeing with you. The problem is getting them to TRY IT. Many of these kids simply refuse to eat vegetables. Flat out, refuse. You can boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew, doesn't matter.

Some of the kids will try it - maybe 5, maybe 10 percent - and the others will find out they're actually enjoying them, and then will also. Make good school lunches and they won't have a problem with vegetables (and perhaps mom and dad will learn something about cooking from the school!).

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Education has to start somewhere, when parents are failing, it's up to the state to pick up the tab, especially if it has someone slightly more competent than the average parent.

Until Michelle this was not the case, but now that there is someone proposing to improve the situation, the national security is at stake as senators worry about food and not foreign policy anymore. People need to fight the good fight for freedom from decent nutrition in schools. Freedom is important. No government tyranny in the lunchbox! Long live freedom fries! USA!

[Fake Boris]

Nor a reason for the federal government to intervene in a matter that can be a matter for decision by parents. For starters, parents choose whether to pack lunches for their kids or give them money for school. Next, they ought to have a direct say at a local level about their school. Nothing necessarily wrong with healthy menus provided they're actually eaten, everything wrong with having federally elected officials responsible for national security spending their time playing at being nutritionists.

What part about it being the menu of a cafeteria don't you understand?