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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on September 25, 2012, 03:16:18 PM
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Complaints Mount Against Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Menu
http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2012/09/23/complaints_mount_against_michelle_obamas_new_lunch_menu
In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market - for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.
Revolt Over School Lunches?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/revolt-over-school-lunches_653039.html
Criticism is mounting over First Lady Michelle Obama's lunch plan, as kids are complaining they aren't getting enough to feel full after eating.
"Some Kansas students and at least one political leader say new school lunch guidelines aimed at limiting calories and encouraging good nutrition are having an unintended consequence: Hungry kids," McClatchy reports. The report points to this parody video of kids complaining about the new lunch program established by First Lady Obama:
A quixotic attempt. :mental:
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That's no way to get "the youth" vote. :lmao:
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It really is quite the buzz nationwide. Our local talk radio is talking about it. What a total fail.
DEMOCRATS STARVE CHILDREN!
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According to our local "lunch lady," high school lunches are capped at 850 calories. Now that sounds all fine and dandy for a 5'5" 100lb girl, but what about the 6'5" 250lb football player who will burn that and more at a single practice? I understand the desire to combat overweight, unhealthy kids, but this won't work, especially at the high school level, where the "kids" are the same size as full grown adults. If we really want healthy kids, bring back PE and recess and get them moving.
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According to our local "lunch lady," high school lunches are capped at 850 calories. Now that sounds all fine and dandy for a 5'5" 100lb girl, but what about the 6'5" 250lb football player who will burn that and more at a single practice? I understand the desire to combat overweight, unhealthy kids, but this won't work, especially at the high school level, where the "kids" are the same size as full grown adults. If we really want healthy kids, bring back PE and recess and get them moving.
Exactly!
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This is a much bigger, but far more PC, fail than the legendary 'Ketchup is a vegetable' fiasco the Dems demagogued so much back in the day...the difference is, schoolkids would actually eat stuff with ketchup on it...
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According to our local "lunch lady," high school lunches are capped at 850 calories. Now that sounds all fine and dandy for a 5'5" 100lb girl, but what about the 6'5" 250lb football player who will burn that and more at a single practice? I understand the desire to combat overweight, unhealthy kids, but this won't work, especially at the high school level, where the "kids" are the same size as full grown adults. If we really want healthy kids, bring back PE and recess and get them moving.
ARE YOU A DAMN FOOL ????? Commonsense was outlawed years ago...you'll be punished for that.... people like you are why the camps were built....but you are right...but don't tell 'em I said that.
Hey, Obama is just trying to prepare the kiddies for their new North Korean diet. You know, grass and tree bark. We must all sacrifice for Great leader and The Wide Load so they can enjoy $100 a pound Wagyu steaks and lobster tails.
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According to our local "lunch lady," high school lunches are capped at 850 calories. Now that sounds all fine and dandy for a 5'5" 100lb girl, but what about the 6'5" 250lb football player who will burn that and more at a single practice? I understand the desire to combat overweight, unhealthy kids, but this won't work, especially at the high school level, where the "kids" are the same size as full grown adults. If we really want healthy kids, bring back PE and recess and get them moving.
It's not good for any child in athletics. My daughter plays high school soccer...she either practices,conditions, or has a game every single day but Sunday. The caloric count in order to forcibly put the china tees in their diet their parents won't deprives athletic kids of a good calorie and carb rich meal prior to practice or a game. I've taken to making sure mine carb loads in a bagel in the morning and takes protein bars with her to supplement. The bad rap on chocolate milk is ridiculous considering the number of trainers now who use and encourage it for a quick easy to find good mix of carb and protein to restore glycogen after workouts.
In my mind something far more dangerous then a kid with 20 extra pounds on him is a child who expends 1000 calories in a game or workout and is not properly nourished especially over a period of time like a season of play. They set those kids up for a host of immediate health issues if they are not properly nourished.
It's stupidity anyway. Give away ridiculous amounts of food stamps and let other slobs over feed their own Children and then seek to correct the problem by now trying to deprive those same kids when they are out of the fily confines. It's ridiculous.
For the record we have pe, recess in our schools still.
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Pardon the autocorrect. I miss my computer. Argh.
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ARE YOU A DAMN FOOL ????? Commonsense was outlawed years ago...you'll be punished for that.... people like you are why the camps were built....but you are right...but don't tell 'em I said that.
Hey, Obama is just trying to prepare the kiddies for their new North Korean diet. You know, grass and tree bark. We must all sacrifice for Great leader and The Wide Load so they can enjoy $100 a pound Wagyu steaks and lobster tails.
Great leader and The Wide Load :lmao: Hi5
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What would be wrong with the parents providing stuff for the kids to pack a lunch with? Even at our poorest, I fenced on weekends or other days off in exchange for beef and antelope. Also cleaned ranchers houses (some were bachelor cow camps. some pretty awful.), nailed boards, put out thistle weevils, anything legal and moral. Out of that we made stews and sandwiches. I baked our bread as a treat.
Okay. Not everyone has access to rural work. But if money is that tight -- babysitting, house/yard cleaning, light home maintenance, etc. can all bring some income so you don't have to depend on the schools for yet one more thing with regard to a child.
Yeah, and definitely get kids moving more, in general.
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I had a parent bring their child into Waffle House after school yesterday. the mom said the child was starving. After the meal, the mom told me "She must have really been hungry, she has never cleaned her plate like that." They were telling me what skimpy lunches she was getting at school. Mozzarella sticks and celery (or something like that)...not enough to feed a bird.
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Once I hit puberty, I couldn't get enough to eat.
That didn't change for another 20 years.
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Ever since I started riding my bike to school I just eat and eat when I get home. I get home around lunch time. I often skip breakfast since I never have time in the mornings. Whats amazing is I'm still losing weight even on my piggy diet.
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I had a hollow leg until I turned 30. After that, it slowly went away.
I miss it. :-)
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What would be wrong with the parents providing stuff for the kids to pack a lunch with? Even at our poorest, I fenced on weekends or other days off in exchange for beef and antelope. Also cleaned ranchers houses (some were bachelor cow camps. some pretty awful.), nailed boards, put out thistle weevils, anything legal and moral. Out of that we made stews and sandwiches. I baked our bread as a treat.
Okay. Not everyone has access to rural work. But if money is that tight -- babysitting, house/yard cleaning, light home maintenance, etc. can all bring some income so you don't have to depend on the schools for yet one more thing with regard to a child.
Yeah, and definitely get kids moving more, in general.
Absolutely nothing wrong with parents providing lunch from home. In fact, that is exactly what we are doing. But...the school has to cook enough to provide lunches for the students based on last year's numbers. So we have a ton of food going into the garbage because of lower participation AND the kids simply aren't eating what they are serving because it is gross.
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It really is quite the buzz nationwide. Our local talk radio is talking about it. What a total fail.
DEMOCRATS STARVE CHILDREN!
If we had an actual balanced media, that bolded part right there would be the national headline.
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What would be wrong with the parents providing stuff for the kids to pack a lunch with? Even at our poorest, I fenced on weekends or other days off in exchange for beef and antelope. Also cleaned ranchers houses (some were bachelor cow camps. some pretty awful.), nailed boards, put out thistle weevils, anything legal and moral. Out of that we made stews and sandwiches. I baked our bread as a treat.
Okay. Not everyone has access to rural work. But if money is that tight -- babysitting, house/yard cleaning, light home maintenance, etc. can all bring some income so you don't have to depend on the schools for yet one more thing with regard to a child.
Yeah, and definitely get kids moving more, in general.
When my granddaughter started "Pre-School" my daughter was given a "memo" that IF THE PACKED LUNCH did NOT meet the "state guidlines" the school would provide the neccessary items and HER packed lunch would be returned to the parents.
Yes, it's communism we live under.
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When my granddaughter started "Pre-School" my daughter was given a "memo" that IF THE PACKED LUNCH did NOT meet the "state guidlines" the school would provide the neccessary items and HER packed lunch would be returned to the parents.
Yes, it's communism we live under.
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Send a substandard lunch. Wait for them to inspect it. Sue the school for violation of 4th Amendment rights
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When my granddaughter started "Pre-School" my daughter was given a "memo" that IF THE PACKED LUNCH did NOT meet the "state guidlines" the school would provide the neccessary items and HER packed lunch would be returned to the parents.
Yes, it's communism we live under.
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Very true. Makes no difference if mom sends one in or the student buys lunch - they are inspecting everything. Epic fed failure.
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According to our local "lunch lady," high school lunches are capped at 850 calories. Now that sounds all fine and dandy for a 5'5" 100lb girl, but what about the 6'5" 250lb football player who will burn that and more at a single practice? I understand the desire to combat overweight, unhealthy kids, but this won't work, especially at the high school level, where the "kids" are the same size as full grown adults. If we really want healthy kids, bring back PE and recess and get them moving.
It's a big problem. A school board in my state had a meeting just for this purpose, and they used the football players as an example. The portions are ridiculously small, and the food choices are horrible. In my district they replaced chicken patty with some sort of tofu patty. Yeah, they are lining up for that.
Crazy.
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In another thread about this, I said that it pissed me off so much I wrote a note to my D congresscritter (Bill Owens). That was about a week ago.
Just got back from lunch, and there was a message on my phone. It's from some staff member of his, wanting to chat about my letter.
I haven't returned the call yet. Since I apparently have the ear of a congresscreep, any particularly salient points you want me to hit? J P Sousa's remark was especially chilling.
edited to correct the creep's name.
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In another thread about this, I said that it pissed me off so much I wrote a note to my D congresscritter (Doug Owens). That was about a week ago.
Just got back from lunch, and there was a message on my phone. It's from some staff member of his, wanting to chat about my letter.
I haven't returned the call yet. Since I apparently have the ear of a congresscreep, any particularly salient points you want me to hit? J P Sousa's remark was especially chilling.
Tell him it smacks of something that would take place in Iran.
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In another thread about this, I said that it pissed me off so much I wrote a note to my D congresscritter (Bill Owens). That was about a week ago.
Just got back from lunch, and there was a message on my phone. It's from some staff member of his, wanting to chat about my letter.
I haven't returned the call yet. Since I apparently have the ear of a congresscreep, any particularly salient points you want me to hit? J P Sousa's remark was especially chilling.
edited to correct the creep's name.
Tell him that A) it's not the business of the FDA or the First Lady to mandate what kids get served in schools. B) starving the kids at school is causing them to binge eat at home because they weren't fed anything they wanted to eat during the day. C) Remind him what a fit the Dems threw in the 80's about Republicans starving kids when Reagan monkeyed with the school lunch regs and tell him the Dems are in danger of getting accused of treating "ketsup as a vegetable" themselves.
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Years from now, historians will point to this new lunch program as the seed for a new generation of small-government conservatives.
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Tell him that A) it's not the business of the FDA or the First Lady to mandate what kids get served in schools. B) starving the kids at school is causing them to binge eat at home because they weren't fed anything they wanted to eat during the day. C) Remind him what a fit the Dems threw in the 80's about Republicans starving kids when Reagan monkeyed with the school lunch regs and tell him the Dems are in danger of getting accused of treating "ketsup as a vegetable" themselves.
Also, mention the increase in medical care due to kids (especially athletes) passing out during activities, low blood sugar, etc. Obamacare in action
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Send a substandard lunch. Wait for them to inspect it. Sue the school for violation of 4th Amendment rights
The courts have consistently ruled that student's 4th amendments rights can be strictly curtailed.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKFSXIRwSCo[/youtube]
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If more parents went to school board meetings I wonder if this sort of nonsense would have ever made into being.
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The courts have consistently ruled that student's 4th amendments rights can be strictly curtailed.
Yes, as it relates to dangerous objects (firearms, knives, etc) or inappropriate material (i.e. porn). Show me how a home packed lunch counts as either of those.
On a separate path, sue for infringement of 10th Amendment rights. It doesn't talk about rights reserved only to the states, but also to the people. A well argued case that "the people" as a whole have a right to determine what food they eat, no matter how nutritious it is, would stop many of these power grabs in their tracks.
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Yes, as it relates to dangerous objects (firearms, knives, etc) or inappropriate material (i.e. porn). Show me how a home packed lunch counts as either of those.
On a separate path, sue for infringement of 10th Amendment rights. It doesn't talk about rights reserved only to the states, but also to the people. A well argued case that "the people" as a whole have a right to determine what food they eat, no matter how nutritious it is, would stop many of these power grabs in their tracks.
Simple doc. The schools have deemed certain foods inappropriate or lacking and therefore must be inspected/searched. That whole slippery slope thing.
But I really like your idea about going at this from a 10th Amendment angle.
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Simple doc. The schools have deemed certain foods inappropriate or lacking and therefore must be inspected/searched. That whole slippery slope thing.
But I really like your idea about going at this from a 10th Amendment angle.
The schools here get (as of 6 years ago) 14% of their annual budget from the federal government. In exchange for that 14% the feds get almost total control of the school system...the sad part is that that 14% plus more $ goes to run the free meals and reduced cost meals for the democrat voters kids. One school board member (6 years ago) wanted to tell the feds "screw you & your 14%" and just drop the free meals program to make up the difference...but the feds threatened actions in other areas if they did.
Maybe "No child left behind" should have been called "No kids with skinny behinds."
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I wonder what the first wookie's two little monkey's eat for lunch everyday? I hope some nosey reporter will have the balls to find out and report on it. :censored:
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Pathetic ain't it?
The federal Department of Education (piss be upon Jimmy Carter for creating it), is a national disgrace and needs to be disbanded.
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I wonder what the first wookie's two little monkey's eat for lunch everyday? I hope some nosey reporter will have the balls to find out and report on it. :censored:
We all know that ain't gonna happen.
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We all know that ain't gonna happen.
Like most schools, they post their lunch menu online these days.
https://www.sidwell.edu/mobile/index.aspx?v=c&mid=375&t=Lunch%20Menus
September 26, 2012
MS/US
Lentil Spinach Soup
Panzanella Salad
Bulghur Chick Pea Salad
Shaved Roast Beef
Breaded Eggplant
with Marinara Sauce
Roasted Autumn Vegetables
Lemon Herb Risotto
Sliced Pineapple
September 27, 2012
MS/US
Local Apple Carrot Soup
Broccoli & Raisin Salad
Coleslaw
BBQ Chicken Sliders
Tofu 'Q Sliders
Sauteed Fresh Green Beans
Macaroni & Cheese
Local Pears
LS = Lower school
MS = Middle school
US = Upper school
*I've probably set off some alert somewhere by searching for Sidwell-Friends School. :tinfoil2:
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Like most schools, they post their lunch menu online these days.
https://www.sidwell.edu/mobile/index.aspx?v=c&mid=375&t=Lunch%20Menus
LS = Lower school
MS = Middle school
US = Upper school
*I've probably set off some alert somewhere by searching for Sidwell-Friends School. :tinfoil2:
High dollar sissy food....real people eat meat and potatoes.
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Macaroni and cheese is healthy? BBQ sliders? OMG... that's so unhealthy. ::)
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Macaroni and cheese is healthy? BBQ sliders? OMG... that's so unhealthy. ::)
You know it's all gourmet...with organic ingredients. It has to be.
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Michelle my Belle has gotten the Army to adopt this heatly eating standard as well. It's all over our chow halls. And in a conference call I was in a couple weeks ago...DoDDS is going to start forcing it on kids that go to schools on military installations.
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Michelle my Belle has gotten the Army to adopt this heatly eating standard as well. It's all over our chow halls. And in a conference call I was in a couple weeks ago...DoDDS is going to start forcing it on kids that go to schools on military installations.
The Obama plan to weaken the military is coming along as planned.
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When my granddaughter started "Pre-School" my daughter was given a "memo" that IF THE PACKED LUNCH did NOT meet the "state guidlines" the school would provide the neccessary items and HER packed lunch would be returned to the parents.
Yes, it's communism we live under.
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Send the kid in with a bag full of dog shit.....
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I see it as a great way to turn high school kids, especially the 18-year-olds who can vote, into Conservatives.
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Michelle my Belle has gotten the Army to adopt this heatly eating standard as well. It's all over our chow halls. And in a conference call I was in a couple weeks ago...DoDDS is going to start forcing it on kids that go to schools on military installations.
Actually, the military DOES have a vested interest in troops getting good nutrition, and Lord knows a good number of my junior enlisted could stand to lose some weight.
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Actually, the military DOES have a vested interest in troops getting good nutrition, and Lord knows a good number of my junior enlisted could stand to lose some weight.
When I was at camp Geiger, the food was bad and there was what looked like a sewage ditch running along side the chow line (some appetite enhancer).............every table had giant jars of Peanut Butter and Jelly with loaves of bread.
I never ate anything else beside PB&J there, and I don't think anybody else did either. :whatever: Thank goodness it was only short term training.
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The courts have consistently ruled that student's 4th amendments rights can be strictly curtailed.
Children are considered a "protected class" and their access to adults' rights, especially in school, are subject to judicial interpretation. In the same way it is impossible for a child to have a 4th Amendment (or 1st Amendment for that matter -- need I mention the 2nd?), the school, as "in loco parentis" stands in as parent.
Kids don't totally lose their rights at the schoolhouse, but they are subject to a very different and limited interpretation.
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The wookie already has a recipe out there for smoked butt.
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I heard that meat is restricted to just 12 ounces per week, per student.
"OK kids, on the menu today you have a choice of 2 chicken nuggets or a picture of a Big Mac."
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WE ARE HUNGRY !!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo[/youtube]
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My congressman, Bill Owens D-NY, groveling for much-needed votes, wrote to me. His response to the problem is to write a letter to that Vilsack creature. In part:
Although we share the goal of providing healthier meals, [he wrote to Vilsack), I believe we need to take care not to create a situation that is in fact more detrimental. Unfortunately, it has become clear that many students are simply refusing to purchase meals at schools and are bringing food from home, which may or may not be a more healthy choice and is reducing school lunch revenue.
So, in other words, he doesn't give a shit about kids with growling stomachs and light heads. He wants the MONEEEYYYY!!!!
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GO, MATT DOHENEY!
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My congressman, Bill Owens D-NY, groveling for much-needed votes, wrote to me. His response to the problem is to write a letter to that Vilsack creature. In part:
So, in other words, he doesn't give a shit about kids with growling stomachs and light heads. He wants the MONEEEYYYY!!!!
:bird:
GO, MATT DOHENEY!
Give the Libtards time and they'll ban lunches packed at home.