| pokoko said: First of all, that was a horrible, horrible article. I get the impression any objective material was left out, including the actual items on the menu, which you'd think would be one of the first bits of data included. As far as what the school cafeteria offers, I think it should be healthy. If you don't like that, then bring your meals yourself. I brought a lunch-box most of my school life. This isn't the government saying you have to eat certain things, it's the government saying they won't participate in the rising obesity rate of America. Obesity is killing the US and costing billions of dollars in health-care. Also, perhaps if kids aren't getting loaded up on sugars and carbs at lunch then maybe they can actually pay attention in class. |
Townhall.com is a politically website, that will seek out and oppose anything Obama is involved with and frame it in the worst possible light. This whole bit is the lead in to drudgereport.com website, speaking how Michelle Obama is a nasty nanny. I figured I would ask if what the site argues instead for, that being that kids pick what to eat on the cafeteria menu, like the do now. Strapped for cash school districts have been having Pizza Hut and McDonald's come in and serve food of their menu to kids. So kids are eating fast food in cafeterias all day. The reasoning is that they will refuse to eat healthy. So, maybe there is some sort of middle ground here. But, the way it is framed, either it is a health meal menu in cafeterias, or you give the kids what they want.
