School Lunch Headed for Repeal

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Wasn't too long ago you sent a kid to school to learn, not to be fed.

That's not true, and hasn't been for decades. There are millions of American schoolkids who are sent to school to also be fed, because they live in poverty and their school lunches are the only good meal they get during the day. They even have special weekend events to feed these kids.

You are so unawares of the United States you live in. You must wear blinders.

We are a country of fat, overweight children with rampant juvenile diabetes and early cholesterol and heart disease, and much of it is caused by the American diet.

Why do you think the USA is one of the unhealthiest nations in the world, with out -of -control heart disease, strokes, diabetes not found elsewhere? It's our crappy diets!

And school nutrition is notoriously terrible. Chicken nuggets and corn dogs? That's not "food", that's processed crap!

What do you want your kid to be offered at school? Chicken paste and filler sausage covered with fried crust and a soda, or a grilled chicken breast with a vegetable and salad and milk?

Attacking the First Lady for encouraging healthy eating in American children, with exercise, is beyond petty and stupid. That schools have to provide nutritionally better meals is awesome. What parent with a brain could possibly be against better food and nutrition for their kid?

Believe me - plenty of parents in this country - and others - have long railed against crappy cheap fried filler being touted as 'school lunches' and embrace healthier eating for the same dollar.

Pizza counting as a 'vegetable' because of tomato paste? Yeah, we don't need to keep doing that.

If football players need more food, that's an easy fix, you give sports kids more calories. Let the kids have two meals. That the calories provided are nutritionally better is a bonus and a good thing - not a flaw.

The hate directed against this First Lady over her work to encourage health in this country, in our children, is outrageous, petty and stupid.