Still delusional: the USDA attempts to regulate school lunches
What I love is the continual denial of reality.
"thinks students' consumption of fruits and vegetables will rise once schools fully adapt to the healthy eating guidelines... We can't give up hope yet"
What part of braindead don't these people understand? You can't force choice! It hasn't ever worked and never will!
"thinks students' consumption of fruits and vegetables will rise once schools fully adapt to the healthy eating guidelines... We can't give up hope yet"
What part of braindead don't these people understand? You can't force choice! It hasn't ever worked and never will!
I remember when school lunches were described as "manager's choice" and comprised of leftovers, waste minimization meals, and things like we used to call "Dog Meat Pizza", "Fido Foo Yung", and "Kitten a'la King". I think that we should maintain standards so that kids do get food that is at least edible and palatable, but mandating what they eat, as if they were in a cafeteria in the local collective's factory commissar(ry) hall in Volgograd , instead of allowing them good choices of decent food, is wrong wrong wrong.
They're also missing the REAL point - it's not school lunches that are causing the problems... it's the continued promotion of a sedentary and obedient lifestyle that is doing far more harm than a slice of vegetarian pizza.
(I don't understand the reference to Idi Amin, since no one has suggested cannibalism.)
At least... not yet. Give them time, tho...
Idi's last name - was Amin. Dictator. Denier of reality. Very VERY large man - apparently no malnutrition in his early years. Nor later, when he would invite his political rivals for lunch, or at least a quick bite...
You don't see the athletes getting fat (except the Offensive line).
Jan, eats Paleo but sometimes laughs at it
Jan
I deal with contractors all the time, and to those contracting with the dotgov, this is SOP.
for the "food", such as it was(in1958). There was
sauerkraut, some kind of bread pudding with toma-
to squished up in it, some kind of mashed potatos
with yicky little green things distributed through
them, some kind of stuff called "greens", and
kids were expected to eat these dishes. My
second grade teacher, as I recall, would typical-
ly let a kid off from eating a dish if he ate some
of it. I had been taught to eat my food; I would
sit in that lunchroom for a long time after my
classmates had gone back to class, trying (and,
usually, failing) to eat my food, before throwing
in the towel and going back to class.When I was
in the second grade, after New Year's my mother
started packing my lunch, which was, of course,
a great relief. I think I was in the third grade
when I heard of a rule made by the principal that
every pupil had to eat three bites of everything
on his plate. Of course, this did not affect me
personally, as I was now brown-bagging it; I do
not remember how strictly it was enforced; in
the case of a child's allergy, it would have been
an outrage. But why not just take your own
lunch to school in the first place?