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More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama’s signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches. And on her birthday.

On Friday, USDA Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps proposed new rules for the Food and Nutrition Service that would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at lunch and breakfasts while giving them license to sell more pizza, burgers and fries to students. The agency is responsible for administering nutritional programs that feed nearly 30 million students at 99,000 schools.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/17/usda-proposes-changing-school-menus-allow-more-fries-pizza-fewer-vegetables-fruits-reversing-michelle-obama-effort/

Funny thing is, that was my issue when I ran for class president in the 8th grade.
 
Bullseye said:
Kids eat pizza. Institutional vegetables? not so much.
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So kids tell you what they're gonna do. They decide. And you expect to be taken seriously?

You honestly expect people to agree with you, "he's right, the kids decide." Laughable.
 
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JustHanging said:
Jesus, that's giving Trump credit for the maturity of a 14 year old. I think that's going a bit overboard.
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Yeah, he's always, unfailingly reminded me of a schoolyard bully.
 
Bullseye said:
Kids eat pizza. Institutional vegetables? not so much.
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The article attacks that notion. I get that it would take time to get kids to eat more healthily, considering the power of the crap food lobby, but obesity is a real concern.
 
ecofarm said:
So kids tell you what they're gonna do. They decide. And you expect to be taken seriously?

You honestly expect people to agree with you, "he's right, the kids decide." Laughable.
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Stop being ridiculous. You can put all the vegetables on a kids tray you want. They just throw them in the garbage. As a cafeteria volunteer at my kids school I see how much food gets wasted. It’s nauseating. And guess what goes in the trash? All the vegetables, whole wheat and white milk.


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Groogrux said:
Stop being ridiculous. You can put all the vegetables on a kids tray you want. They just throw them in the garbage. As a cafeteria volunteer at my kids school I see how much food gets wasted. It’s nauseating. And guess what goes in the trash? All the vegetables, whole wheat and white milk.


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"The kids got us! We gotta do what they say!"


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Are kids paying you to post that crap? "Here's ten bucks, tell them we can eat whatever we want."
 
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EMNofSeattle said:
Maybe the problem is that the federal government overseas school lunch programs in the first place. All federal lunch programs should be abolished and local communities need to step up.
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Works for health care. Amirite?
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Maybe the problem is that the federal government overseas school lunch programs in the first place. All federal lunch programs should be abolished and local communities need to step up.
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That would be a disaster since many children living in households that are at or below the poverty level wouldn't eat at all if they didn't get lunch in school.
 
we will eventually purge these idiots from our government (and a ton will pass away over the next 30 years).

it just takes time.
 
I remember the last time Democrats got wrapped around the axle about school lunches. They claimed Republicans were ripping plates of food from under the mouths of children.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Maybe the problem is that the federal government overseas school lunch programs in the first place. All federal lunch programs should be abolished and local communities need to step up.
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The federal government promoting healthy eating isn't a problem. The federal government subsidizing foods that are processed into high calorie products that make them cheap is a big problem.
 
In grade school one time they divided us up into groups to choose the cafeteria menu each day. My group chose pizza and spinach and something else don't remember. This was in the sixties in Florida and this cafeteria made some outstanding deep dish pizza.
 
AProudLefty said:
Nothing if you don't see obesity as an epidemic.
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there is nothing wrong with the nutrition in a big mac.

in fact dollar for dollar it is better nutrition than most people can afford. that isn't the issue.

the issue is sitting on your ass not doing anything.
kids playing video games more than they sleep.
 
ludin said:
there is nothing wrong with the nutrition in a big mac.

in fact dollar for dollar it is better nutrition than most people can afford. that isn't the issue.

the issue is sitting on your ass not doing anything.
kids playing video games more than they sleep.
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Hence why it is a problem. If they aren't doing anything productive, then why would it be a good idea to keep feeding them junk food?
 
Republicans reached Peak Stupidity during the Obama Administration when we got around to Michelle Obama's endorsement of healthy school lunches, and they've reached peak stupidity again.

Anyone remember that guy who opposed Michelle's policy because kids need 12,000 calories per day?
 
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