Should teenagers and children determine what they eat for lunch?

[richardhutnik]

Kantor said:

richardhutnik said:

Kantor said:

HappySqurriel said:
This is what you get when you have bureaucrats deciding what a "healthy" meal is ...

Someone who actually had a clue what they were doing would have taken kids 10 (or 20) favorite foods and modified them so that they were healthier. It is far easier to get a kid to eat a healthy pizza or taco than it is to get them to eat hummus or bean salad.

That's a fair point.

Some people in this thread want to entrust decisions on healthy eating to the people who declared pizza a vegetable.

You mean Republican congressmen who passed legistlation under the influence of the food industry?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pizza-is-a-vegetable

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html

I mean Congress.

Have you ever known me to be a Republican, Richard? I'm libertarian, and that means I dislike them as much as I do the Democrats.

What I stated was what had happened.  It was a comment on the situation, in greater detail.  It wasn't in reference to yourself.