US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable

[mrstickball]

megaman79 said:

mrstickball said:

Subsidies and regulations. Did you watch Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution? He went into the heard of the Los Angeles school district to try to get them to embrace healthier foods. No one on the council wanted it, because the government and corporations were giving them subsidies to serve horrible foods.

Comparatively, look at private schools: They have no regulations nor subisidies, and the result is much better, healthier food.

And yet Britain has much less of a problem. Honestly, sometimes i can't even tell if you're serious mrstickball.

You got a source on healthy food being served exclusively at private schools, because i was under the impression that private colleges serve pizza too.

I don't get your point you are trying to make.

America has a massive systemic issue with schools and regulation because of both state and school government. It yields worse results at higher prices. You say Britian has less of a problem, and I fully agree. They spend less on their schools and get more than we do. Heck, we've had recent TV documentaries on French schools which have trained chefs who make healthy food for the kids - yet they spend significantly less per student than we do.

Private colleges serve whatever they want to. Some do serve junk, but they are also allowed and free to serve healthier meals as well. I can look at my niece's menu at her school, and it consists of pre-made foods which are essentially junk foods: chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas, hamburgers and fries and so on. These foods are not cheap. Things that schools pay a premium to purchase, because the preparation is going on elsewhere.

Again, did you even WATCH Jamie Oliver's food revolution? The end result of the show is that LA essentially cans him from doing anything, and the ONLY school that lets him work on making food healthier is a charter school.

 

The reality is that if schools had the flexibility and willpower, they could make better and more nutritious meals for their students, but they choose not to. It does not cost any more to make a nice rice dish with plenty of veggies than it does a hamburger and french fries, or a homemade sub vs. a nasty pre-made pizza.