Republicans look to scrap Michelle Obama school lunch plan

[Right_in_Virginia]

Republicans look to scrap Michelle Obama school lunch plan
Fox News, Jan 25, 2017

The healthy school lunch program championed by former first lady Michelle Obama has had its fair share of criticism -- but with a new administration in place, the program could be rolled back.

A document released by the office of Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., called for repealing certain aspects of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – the legislation that helped put Michelle Obama’s hallmark program into law. The initiative is part of a broader plan released by Meadows titled, “First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue.”

The document calls for the Trump administration to reverse nearly 200 rules and regulations, including the requirements of the 2010 law.

“The regulations have proven to be burdensome and unworkable for schools to implement,” reads a related report from the House Freedom Caucus, of which Meadows is a member. “Schools are throwing food away that students are not eating.”

Since 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has implemented the requirement – tied to the 2010 law – that schools include either a fruit or vegetable for lunches subsidized by the federal government. However, a report published in August 2015 by researchers at the University of Vermont found even though students added more fruits and vegetables to their plates, “children consumed fewer [fruits and vegetables] and wasted more during the school year immediately following implementation of the USDA rule.”


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[chae]

Every person who votes to keep this plan ought to be forced to eat it continually for the next 12 years.

[Right_in_Virginia]

[beandog]

Good.  How much "healthier" did all those kids who had to eat the lunch get over the last 6 years.

[Frank Cannon]

Every person who votes to keep this plan ought to be forced to eat it continually for the next 12 years.

[andy58-in-nh]

Hypocrisy is even more delicious than fast food fries.

[beandog]

Hypocrisy is even more delicious than fast food fries.

Now I wouldn't go that far.

[Fantom]

On the positive side, every school kid got a personal lesson in the fascist Progressive State.

Hopefully it yields positive results at the ballot box when they turn 18.

[mystery-ak]

My grandsons will be happy to hear this.

[Smokin Joe]

Hungry children are not healthy.  This needs doing ASAP.

It's hard to learn when you are hungry. These are developing kids, and it isn't about maintaining their body weight, but building their bodies. My grandkids have been coming home from school ready to eat the fridge since they started this crap.  They are not getting the developmental nutrition they need.

[libertybele]

I have very mixed feelings on this.  Growing up my parents provided my lunch, sometimes all I got was a Velveeta and mayo sandwich or sugar and butter sandwich... and I do believe each parent should be RESPONSIBLE in feeding their own children; but we have a generation of kids that go hungry and live in poverty and even though the parent(s) may work, have a heck of a time putting food in their lunch boxes. Honestly, until Trump can turn this economy around and get people working and off welfare,  I'm hoping that a better plan then is implemented if they indeed scrap her lunch plan. In the area that I live ALL students regardless of age or income are entitled to receive a free breakfast and lunch. Granted on some days the breakfasts have a little to be desired and the lunches sometimes may not be a kid's favorite, but any way you cut it, no child during the day is going hungry.  That's the key here in a nutshell.  My grandkids are in elementary and middle school and actually they are given choices of entrees; vegetables and mixtures of fruits are available and choice of milk. Perhaps they don't put the fruits or vegetables/salads on their trays ... but still .... each student at least has something to put in their bellies throughout the day.

[Wingnut]

The school lunch program ran pretty much the same for 40 years until Mooch decided it was making kids fat.

The only factor that changed in those 40 years was the kids.   Sedentary sloth like creatures tend to fat over weight skells.

[libertybele]

It's hard to learn when you are hungry. These are developing kids, and it isn't about maintaining their body weight, but building their bodies. My grandkids have been coming home from school ready to eat the fridge since they started this crap.  They are not getting the developmental nutrition they need.

They also though have the choice of packing their own lunch do they not??

[Smokin Joe]

The school lunch program ran pretty much the same for 40 years until Mooch decided it was making kids fat.

The only factor that changed in those 40 years was the kids.   Sedentary sloth like creatures tend to fat over weight skells.

Some are, some aren't. Ours aren't--sedentary or slothlike. But that is why they are perpetually hungry, anyway. They may not always spend their energy doing the things we want, but then they burn twice as much bypassing of a chore as doing one (and then they still have to do it).

[Fantom]

The school lunch program ran pretty much the same for 40 years until Mooch decided it was making kids fat.

The only factor that changed in those 40 years was the kids.   Sedentary sloth like creatures tend to fat over weight skells.

Well, when normal children are no longer allowed to run around at recess playin'  Cowboys and Indians. ..........

[beandog]

I have very mixed feelings on this.  Growing up my parents provided my lunch, sometimes all I got was a Velveeta and mayo sandwich or sugar and butter sandwich... and I do believe each parent should be RESPONSIBLE in feeding their own children; but we have a generation of kids that go hungry and live in poverty and even though the parent(s) may work, have a heck of a time putting food in their lunch boxes. Honestly, until Trump can turn this economy around and get people working and off welfare,  I'm hoping that a better plan then is implemented if they indeed scrap her lunch plan. In the area that I live ALL students regardless of age or income are entitled to receive a free breakfast and lunch. Granted on some days the breakfasts have a little to be desired and the lunches sometimes may not be a kid's favorite, but any way you cut it, no child during the day is going hungry.  That's the key here in a nutshell.  My grandkids are in elementary and middle school and actually they are given choices of entrees; vegetables and mixtures of fruits are available and choice of milk. Perhaps they don't put the fruits or vegetables/salads on their trays ... but still .... each student at least has something to put in their bellies throughout the day.

You know what, I was a single parent for much of my sons younger years.  I didn't make a lot of money but I wouldn't have dreamed of not feeding my children breakfast, lunch and dinner.  There are no free lunches, someone like me, is paying for them.

If a parent is so poor that they can't afford to feed their children then there are food stamps.  If parents are unwilling to feed their own children either because they're lazy or they think someone else should do it, then they should have their children removed from them.  Why are we given people food stamps if they aren't using it to feed their children.

[mountaineer]

They'll still get lunches, and won't have to pay for them if their parents can't. They just won't be force fed inedible brown stuff or vegetables no one's heard of - which cost the school districts a fortune and the kids refuse to eat.

[Wingnut]

Some are, some aren't. Ours aren't--sedentary or slothlike. But that is why they are perpetually hungry, anyway. They may not always spend their energy doing the things we want, but then they burn twice as much bypassing of a chore as doing one (and then they still have to do it).

But Joe you come from an area where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

[Wingnut]

Well, when normal children are no longer allowed to run around at recess playin'  Cowboys and Indians. ..........

You mean "Livestock management technicians" and "indigenous persons".

[Smokin Joe]

But Joe you come from an area where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

True, dat!

[mountaineer]

You mean "Livestock management technicians" and "indigenous persons".

That's persecuted by evil white men indigenous persons, buster.

[Wingnut]

That's persecuted by evil white men indigenous persons, buster.

ALrighty then!   ^-^

[Smokin Joe]

That's persecuted by evil white men indigenous persons, buster.

We used to play 'oppressive fascist racist law enforcement technicians and poor aggrieved downtrodden educationally underprivileged economically deprived larcenous victims from food deserts'--although the name was a lot shorter.

We played 'Army', too, but that would have you hanged from the schoolyard fence for going "bang!" nowadays.

[Sanguine]

But Joe you come from an area where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

I didn't know @Smokin Joe was from Texas! 

 

[libertybele]

You know what, I was a single parent for much of my sons younger years.  I didn't make a lot of money but I wouldn't have dreamed of not feeding my children breakfast, lunch and dinner.  There are no free lunches, someone like me, is paying for them.

If a parent is so poor that they can't afford to feed their children then there are food stamps.  If parents are unwilling to feed their own children either because they're lazy or they think someone else should do it, then they should have their children removed from them.  Why are we given people food stamps if they aren't using it to feed their children.

Absolutely!  I hear exactly where you're coming from. Laziness does enter into the scenario without a doubt!! But also, it's not the children's fault! LBJ's Great Society made generations of people dependent on government and it has become acceptable to depend on government or to get over and get benefits rather than work.  There are also parents who (and I know a few) are too much in a hurry in the morning to feed their kids or to lazy at night to pack lunches and leave it up to the schools; and yes, they are the same parents that are too lazy to do homework with their kids as well. On the other hand I have volunteered at food banks and food stamps only stretch so far, especially with the price of food these days and the parents are legitimately doing what they can for themselves and their kids.

Bottom line...we have to enable people (via jobs) to take care of themselves and their families rather than enable them to be dependent on government.