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Grave Grumbler (110 posts) Schools try to keep kids from tossing out fruit, veggieshttp://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-school-food-waste-20120930,0,1993800.story At Triangle Elementary School in Mount Dora, students shuffle through the lunch lines loading their plates with pears, plums, pizza slices and fruit slushies. At the lunch tables, many devour the cheese-and-mushroom pizza, guzzle their milk but leave whole pears, ripened plums and the slushies destined for the garbage. "Unfortunately, we do force-feed some of it," said Carol Brewer, a school food-service manager, while monitoring the bustling cafeteria. "They've got to have a fruit or a veggie." This year, prompted by changes in federal school-lunch rules, Central Florida students are not allowed to turn down the healthful produce, much of which can end up in the dumpster. The issue has caught the attention of Lake County school leaders who say they want staff to use surveys, or even trash cams — cameras mounted on cafeteria garbage bins — to study what's being thrown away. Last year, Lake schools were the only ones in Central Florida to sample the new rules a year before they were required. And they estimated that students tossed $75,000 of produce in the garbage. This year, School Board members say they want stricter trash monitoring to figure out what's working and what's not with the new federal policy.http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021445578
What kid eats whole pears and ripened plums, anyway? What ever happened to apples or grapes? Things kids would enjoy.
Or a banana, sliced oranges good fruit. Even as an adult I don't like pears or plums.
Forced liberalism
It can't possibly be that forced liberalism has failed, it's that it hasn't been implemented correctly....
Apples, grapes, oranges, bananas, watermelon, pineapple. Watch how many kids eat those.
Bananas and watermelon are racist.