School Lunch Headed for Repeal

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

so, take a kid who gets breakfast and lunch at school, and no dinner, and tell me what the lowered calories at his two meals will mean?

Eliminating 500 extra calories in fried breading isn't exactly a bad thing - it's a good thing.

The caloric counts of the lunches are based upon the caloric needs of children that age. Obviously a 200lb senor football player has different caloric needs than a 100-lb freshman girl.

But they both need good nutrition, not crappy "food like substances".

If a kid isn't getting dinner at home at all due to poverty, and that fried breading was providing "dinner" calories, the solution isn't going back to adding fried breading back into his nutrition plan (giving him obesity, cholesterol problems, etc).

It's getting the kid a nutritious dinner.

Something the GOP has turned against for those "47% moocher class who will never take responsibility for their own lives", which is why I'm currently voting Democratic.