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LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) —
The revamped school lunches at Los Angeles Unified School District have won awards, commending them for improving the menu at the second largest school district in the nation. Too bad the students don’t agree.
Rejecting healthful alternatives like vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles, students are throwing them in the trash by the thousands, bringing junk food from home and buying instant noodles and other decidedly unhealthy fare from the “black markets” that have begun to thrive at campuses across the district, according to the Los Angeles Times.
LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu « CBS Los Angeles
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
 
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.

I just do not get you sometimes Mr. V...

Are you happy about this because Mrs. Obama is promoting healthy eating and you wanna see egg on her face?

Or are you happy about this because in the United States 16 - 33% of under 19 kids are Obese today including over 1/3rd of the adults?

This is leading to increased health complications, lower life expectancy and becoming a massive burden on the health system which will lead to higher costs and premiums.

And here comes a public school, funded by the government, trying to promote healthier eating in a bid to curb these issues and here you are celebrating that kids and their parents are refusing to even try to make the better choice...

Yes in a free society I suppose you have the right to destroy yourself in any way you see fit... but we shouldn't be celebrating that fact.
 
I just do not get you sometimes Mr. V...

Are you happy about this because Mrs. Obama is promoting healthy eating and you wanna see egg on her face?

Or are you happy about this because in the United States 16 - 33% of under 19 kids are Obese today including over 1/3rd of the adults?

This is leading to increased health complications, lower life expectancy and becoming a massive burden on the health system which will lead to higher costs and premiums.

And here comes a public school, funded by the government, trying to promote healthier eating in a bid to curb these issues and here you are celebrating that kids and their parents are refusing to even try to make the better choice...

Yes in a free society I suppose you have the right to destroy yourself in any way you see fit... but we shouldn't be celebrating that fact.

I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live, and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food. How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things? Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat. THAT would do so much more then craptastic food foisted by a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats.

What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.
 
From the examples listed in the CBS report, it seems the student's rejection of school food has little to do with the healthiness of the food and more to do with the genre. Vegetarian curries and tamales? Quinoa salads? Pad Thai Noodles?

The kids are probably seeing it and thinking 'Da hell is this ****?'

Just put less cheese on the pizza, use a higher fibre dough, and keep the fatty/greasy toppings to a minimum. Would be a drastic improvement over what a lot of schools push for lunches.
 
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live

Go back and read my post again.

But actually read it this time.

I don't believe that, I've never believed that and I'm never going to believe that

In this case the school district is merely trying to promote a healthier alternative, and if kids choose to reject that again it's not something we should celebrate, no one is being forced or dictated to do ANYTHING.

It's hyperbole on your part.

and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food.

No one is being force fed health foods.

How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things?

I'm sorry are they not being allowed to do that?

Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat.

Is the school not offering gym class?

What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.

NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU SAY IT MR. V, IT DOESN'T MAKE IT THE.... *DRUM ROLL*

REALITY
 
When did eating junk fund and buying instant noodles make one an entrepreneur, especially one that deserves applause?

While I agree that people have the right to eat what they what, we are talking about children who are not yet fully emancipated. Unfortunately, their parents should be making healthier diet decisions for them, instead of a public school. Instead, we have to rely on a public school to help get children to eat healthier and when their attempt fails, they get castrated by an out-of-whacked "liberty lover". (Plus, no one's freedom is being violated).

In addition, unhealthy diets like the ones that OP is championing has spillover costs (i.e. negative externalities) which eventually leads to lost of productivity, increased sick days, and the public picking up the various health care costs for diseases that are completely unavoidable.
 
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Go back and read my post again.

But actually read it this time.

I don't believe that, I've never believed that and I'm never going to believe that

In this case the school district is merely trying to promote a healthier alternative, and if kids choose to reject that again it's not something we should celebrate, no one is being forced or dictated to do ANYTHING.

It's hyperbole on your part.
How delusions, you claim "Healthier Alternative" but there is only the Government approved alternative, which has been solely rejected by the poor saps forced to eat crap food. An alternative implies choice.

No one is being force fed health foods.

No they were given only "health foods" or bring their own.

I'm sorry are they not being allowed to do that?
Recess Makes Kids Smarter | Scholastic.com


Is the school not offering gym class?
Obviously Gym class isn't strenuous enough now is it?

NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU SAY IT MR. V, IT DOESN'T MAKE IT THE.... *DRUM ROLL*

REALITY
Your reality is only offering "health foods" in school is just a choice for kids to eat smarter, recess is almost gone in many schools and just having a "gym period" counts as a workout.

YOUR reality does not jive with REALITY, I suggest you educate yourself on what's going on rather then what you think should be.
 
When did eating junk fund and buying instant noodles make one an entrepreneur, especially one that deserves applause?

While I agree that people have the right to eat what they what, we are talking about children who are not yet fully emancipated. Unfortunately, their parents should be making healthier diet decisions for them, instead of a public school. Instead, we have to rely on a public school to help get children to eat healthier and when their attempt fails, they get castrated by an out-of-whacked "liberty lover". (Plus, no one's freedom is being violated).

In addition, unhealthy diets like the ones that OP is championing has spillover costs (i.e. negative externalities) which eventually leads to lost of productivity, increased sick days, and the public picking up the various health care costs for diseases that are completely unavoidable.

JUNK FOOD SHOULD BE OUTLAWED! Make everyone eat healthy! Cause their too stupid, Government is the way!



FYI, I'm applauding the kids that figured out selling food kids want to eat and making a profit is quite worthy of applause.
 
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.

Well they are kids living with parents.

Where are the parents in all of this? Why dont' these parents have a force in this issue at all? How do they feel about spending all that money each year only for their children to refuse to eat it - and use more money to buy junk foods?

More and more lately the schools are determining the course of our children's lives and overstepping us in order to instill their values which they feel should supercede ours.

Here we are: unhealthy and fat - and kids just throw away food without concern or respect for the time and money taken to provide it. No respect at all or appreciation.

But other kids nation and worldwide hardly have anything substantial to eat - if only they could be so 'picky'

This worsening attitude from teens is rather disturbing.
 
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It takes a special kind of person to be so adamantly opposed to kids eating healthier food. They're usually fat and couldn't do a push up if a twinkie was on the floor.
 
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.
I don't care whether kids bring in unhealthy food from home. That's on the parents. Nothing in this article indicates the schools are forcing kids to eat anything. The problem that was solved was the school offering only unhealthy, disgusting food to students. Our public schools shouldn't force kids to eat healthily, but they should certainly promote it.

I don't see why a public school should have to provide both a healthy and an unhealthy alternative for students. And they certainly shouldn't provide only an unhealthy option. If kids don't like it, they can bring their own lunches.
 
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From the examples listed in the CBS report, it seems the student's rejection of school food has little to do with the healthiness of the food and more to do with the genre. Vegetarian curries and tamales? Quinoa salads? Pad Thai Noodles?

The kids are probably seeing it and thinking 'Da hell is this ****?'

Just put less cheese on the pizza, use a higher fibre dough, and keep the fatty/greasy toppings to a minimum. Would be a drastic improvement over what a lot of schools push for lunches.

Best Answer! They aren't rejecting healthy food, they're rejecting the school's interpretation of healthy food. They stopped serving flavored milk. Why? Milk is healthy and an important building block for growth. Is it suddenly unhealthy because it's flavored with chocolate? Turkey burgers Big Mac style w/whole wheat buns; yes, healthy pizza; roasted veggie pasta; tuna pasta; baked sweet potatoes; BBQd chicken; fish tacos; vegetarian stir fries; the list of healthy foods is endless. But! Vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles? Give me a break. I'd be black-marketing my lunch, too.
 
I'm not sure what the issue here is. The school offered only "healthy" choices. I can agree with that. The students rejected that and brought unhealthy choices from home. That's within their rights, too. Government didn't try to control anything. If they had, they would have PROHIBITED the students from eating anything other than the choices that they gave.

I have a different issue. I hate hearing that lots of this food was thrown away. Give it to folks who need food.
 
I don't care whether kids bring in unhealthy food from home. That's on the parents. Nothing in this article indicates the schools are forcing kids to eat anything. The problem that was solved was the school offering only unhealthy, disgusting food to students.
The same thing happened when Jamie Oliver fronted a similar campaign in Britain. Parents and kids complained and parents turned up at school with the old crap, intent on poisoning their kids with junk food. The schools stuck to their guns and slowly kids got used to the new, better food. No one's forcing anything, just recognising that someone has to start creating inventive solutions to the impending health crisis caused by the terrible, junk food diets of our kids.
 
I actually love tamales, but ONLY if they have some sort of meat. But vegetarian tamales, **** dat ****................
 
its simple.. if you dont want what the publicly funded school is providing, then take your kid out and enroll them in a private school or homeschool them.
otherwise get over it.

there is no draconian push to make kids eat the food served in school.

the only downside to this is the big businesses that have purchased the right to sell their product resembling food as nutritional, through purchased legislators.
 
JUNK FOOD SHOULD BE OUTLAWED! Make everyone eat healthy! Cause their too stupid, Government is the way!

Oh the irony in this post. Not to mention, a complete schism from reality.

FYI, I'm applauding the kids that figured out selling food kids want to eat and making a profit is quite worthy of applause.

If this is the case, then you are simply confusing arbitrage with entrepreneurship.
 
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.

Certainly can't. Doesn't mean that the school's should try to pass off twinkies and junk food as lunches. The kids are free to bring whatever they want, we'll be paying for their medical bills later is all.
 
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live

Yet do you promote the banning of drugs? Support the War on Drugs? Higher healthcare premiums for smokers? There's plenty of areas where people will use government or other force to try to dictate how people live. As for the school lunch, I think it's pretty ok for the school's to offer healthy choices and not endorse the overall growing obesity problem with this country through pandering to bad eating habits. If the individual still wants to eat poorly, they are still capable of doing so.
 
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live, and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food. How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things? Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat. THAT would do so much more then craptastic food foisted by a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats.

What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.

So your not okay with the public school system forcing kids to eat healthy while they are at school, but your okay with them forcing them to exercise, what if they want to stay in the library and play cards, or read? Seriously, this is not the government forcing people to eat healthy, it's the government only offering people who attend government schools healthy food. Which is perfectly within their right. Now if they followed these kids home, and forced their parents what to feed them you would have a point. But they aren't, so your point just makes no sense.
 
I applaud this because people like you think that you can dictate how people should live, and that you can force them to be "healthy" with **** food. How about we bring back good old recess and let kids run around and play and do kid things? Or gym class where kids have to ya know... work up a sweat. THAT would do so much more then craptastic food foisted by a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats.

What I don't get is someone like yourself that thinks Government SHOULD dictate how people live.

I dont see at as the government dictating anything at all, I just see it as the government not being part of the problem.

Its the right move, the government should limit the amount of unhelalthy choices they provide (dont know what this school is actually serving) and OF COURSE the the kids have the right to choose to bring their own stuff.

Its like me with my mom. She is twice widowed and I help support her etc etc. You know what I NEVER buy her? Her stinkin cigarettes LOL This wont STOP her from smoking of course but i sure as hell wont HELP her harm herself.

Also Im sure Jet is all for gym classes and recess.

I know I am, ive even told my daughter if her school district would go to one of those BS "non touch" schools or "everybody wins" schools or Pass/Fail schools id pull her out of there faster than lightning!
 
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I'm not sure what the issue here is. The school offered only "healthy" choices. I can agree with that. The students rejected that and brought unhealthy choices from home. That's within their rights, too. Government didn't try to control anything. If they had, they would have PROHIBITED the students from eating anything other than the choices that they gave.

I have a different issue. I hate hearing that lots of this food was thrown away. Give it to folks who need food.

I'm glad someone else noticed the same thing I did. If you don't want to eat the healthier choices then just bring crap from home. But don't throw perfectly good food in the garbage!

What a bunch of spoiled, self-entitled brats.
 
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, wholesale rejection of planned forced living and frankly just kids being kids in this whole affair. You cannot force people to live the way you want them too, not in a free society.

Our society is still free when it comes to food, you just need to stop drinking koolaid. Schools should only be offering healthy choices. If people don't want them they are free to bring their junk from home, as these families have demonstrated.

I find you immoral for cheering on unhealthy degeneration just because it suits your political agenda. Shame on you.
 
Its like me with my mom. She is twice widowed and I help support her etc etc. You know what I NEVER buy her? Her stinkin cigarettes LOL This wont STOP her from smoking of course but i sure as hell wont HELP her harm herself.

This is a good analogy. There is a difference between support/non-support and dictating/non-dictating. The government, in this case, chooses to not support unhealthy food choices. The kids can STILL make those unhealthy decisions if they want. There is no government control, here.
 
This is complete BS. I have nothing against people eating healthier, but bringing them disgusting food that they will never eat is not a solution. They will just bring food from home. A better solution is to improve the food they already have.

It is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences.
 
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