if this doesn't scare the crap out of you

[99gator]

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria-nuggets.html

what the hell has happened to the country i love?

 

[n_huffhines]

Food police outta control. This is what happens when you leave nutrition (or anything) up to government:

 

[VOLatile]

Subsidize bikes, not food.

 

[milohimself]

Moreover, the result of food manufacturers being allowed to dictate policy

Y'all need to watch Food Revolution

And when it comes to food production, crazy as this might sound, we have a thing or two to learn from Cuba

 

[VOLatile]

Moreover, the result of food manufacturers being allowed to dictate policy

Y'all need to watch Food Revolution

And when it comes to food production, crazy as this might sound, we have a thing or two to learn from Cuba

Okay Gibbs... :lolabove:


(But seriously, I agree.)

 

[n_huffhines]

Moreover, the result of food manufacturers being allowed to dictate policy

Y'all need to watch Food Revolution

And when it comes to food production, crazy as this might sound, we have a thing or two to learn from Cuba

The big players dictate the policy in every industry. That's why we have regulation in the first place. If the big companies didn't benefit from regulation, we would have a lot less of it.

 

[milohimself]

Okay Gibbs... :lolabove:


(But seriously, I agree.)

No, srsly

USSR fell, Cuba stopped getting shipments of food

People had to start growing their own food and started eating a lot more fruits and vegetables. That's why life expectancy there is better than in the US and they don't have to cook up numbers.

Even if regulations were done away with, schools would still be buying crap food because it's what's cheapest. That would occur without food subsidies as well. Although I don't think they'd be requiring kids to replace home packed lunch with chicken nuggets...

 

[99gator]

i guess the whole government employee inspecting a 4 year old's food doesn't seem to bother anyone.

this isn't about food manufacturers.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Rick Santorum approves of these actions by the school.

 

[utvolpj]

i guess the whole government employee inspecting a 4 year old's food doesn't seem to bother anyone.

this isn't about food manufacturers.

Brawndo doesn't get to the top of the food pyramid on electrolytes alone

 

[milohimself]

i guess the whole government employee inspecting a 4 year old's food doesn't seem to bother anyone.

this isn't about food manufacturers.

Unless somebody just used a lunch sack to sneak a gun into a school, then yes it does.

 

[RespectTradition]

:banghead2:

 

[volinbham]

I for one welcome our nugget Overlords

 

[volsforever27]

Yeah, no problem here. I can't wait 'til I have to get approval for my kids' lunch.

 

[gsvol]

I for one welcome our nugget Overlords

i guess the whole government employee inspecting a 4 year old's food doesn't seem to bother anyone.

this isn't about food manufacturers.

You will find it hard to talk sense to those two.

They would never understand.

Okay Gibbs... :lolabove:


(But seriously, I agree.)

You two are like Gibbs and me too.

Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets”

what the hell has happened to the country i love?

What is even worse is the doling out drugs to children who are deemed hyperactive.

Let's call it early childhood development and it didn't start just yesterday.


State Inspectors Searching Children

The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program gives schools a grade based on standards that include USDA meal guidelines enforced by the N.C. Division of Early Childhood Development.

 

[myrobbins7]

Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets”

what the hell has happened to the country i love?

It has been hijacked.

 

[utvolpj]

this is the scariest part to me

The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program

we have govt inspectors for lunches?

 

[Lexvol]

this is the scariest part to me



we have govt inspectors for lunches?

USDA inspectors....in North Carolina....you would think they would be busy with Taco Bell right now.

 

[KiffinKiller]

let's just cull the fat.

 

[Cartervol]

let's just cull the fat from the government.

fyp. That's a whole lot of fat we need to cull.

 

[Cartervol]

USDA inspectors....in North Carolina....you would think they would be busy with Taco Bell right now.

What? You don't think their grade D meat is healthy?

 

[utvolpj]

USDA inspectors....in North Carolina....you would think they would be busy with Taco Bell right now.

must be all good if they have time to take away turkey sandwiches and replace them with healthier chicken nuggets

 

[Panthro]

I realize this kid's lunch isn't the same thing as my story, but my wife has had to get a school lunch for her kindergarten students plenty of times.
She's told me parents send a Mountain Dew and a mini-Snickers bar for lunch, and stuff like that happens about once every two weeks. Then again, 98% of her school is free-reduced lunch, anyway...

 

[KiffinKiller]

no no. fat in general. get skinny or die!

 

[utvolpj]

I realize this kid's lunch isn't the same thing as my story, but my wife has had to get a school lunch for her kindergarten students plenty of times.
She's told me parents send a Mountain Dew and a mini-Snickers bar for lunch, and stuff like that happens about once every two weeks. Then again, 98% of her school is free-reduced lunch, anyway...

while I agree that's crap I still don't see it as the govts responsibility to police school lunches. I was a rail in HS and ate terrible food