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Michelle Obama on Deciding What Kids Eat: ‘We Can’t Just Leave it Up to The Parents'[/B]
[release]Speaking at Monday's signing ceremony for the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act”-- a law that will subsidize and regulate what children eat before school, at lunch, after school, and during summer vacations in federally funded school-based feeding programs -- First Lady Michelle Obama said of deciding what American children should eat: “We can’t just leave it up to the parents."
The law gives the federal government for the first time the authority to regulate the food sold at local schools, including in vending machines.
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“Everywhere I go, fortunately, I meet parents who are working very hard to make sure that their kids are healthy,” said Mrs. Obama. “They’re doing things like cutting down on desserts and trying to increase fruits and vegetables. They’re trying to teach their kids the kind of healthy habits that will stay with them for a lifetime.
“But when our kids spend so much of their time each day in school, and when many children get up to half their daily calories from school meals, it’s clear that we as a nation have a responsibility to meet as well,” Mrs. Obama said. “We can’t just leave it up to the parents. I think that parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won’t be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. I think that our parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.”
The Senate approved the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act legislation in August and the House approved it earlier this month by a vote of 264-157 (with 153 Republicans and 4 Democrats voting no, and 247 Democrats and 17 Republicans voting yes). The law will be administered by the Department of Agriculture, which will craft new school nutrition standards under the law.
The law increases spending on school nutrition programs by $4.5 billion over ten years and encompasses a range of provisions, including offering qualified children breakfast, lunch and dinner at school, as well as meals during the summer. It also includes a pilot program for “organic foods.”
President Obama said at the signing ceremony—held at the Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Washington. D.C.--that he was following in the tradition of President Harry S. Truman, who signed the first federal school lunch program into law, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Childhood Nutrition Act of 1966.
Obama said that if the bill had not reached his desk for his signature, “I would be sleeping on the couch.”
The law has been championed by the first lady as part of her campaign to end childhood obesity. Michelle Obama said that while it may seem ironic to be addressing childhood hunger and obesity at the same time, “it’s really just two sides of the same coin.”
Critics of the bill include former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a Republican, who took cookies to an event in Pennsylvania in November to illustrate what she said is the “nanny state run amok.”[/release]
Source: [url]http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michelle-obama-45-billion-child-nutritio[/url]
[quote][B]The law increases spending on school nutrition programs by $4.5 billion over ten years and encompasses a range of provisions, including offering qualified children breakfast, lunch and dinner at school, as well as meals during the summer. It also includes a pilot program for “organic foods.”[/B][/quote]
Hey, Obum! Why don't you focus on your kids before you tell us, and our parents, how to feed our kids?!
Notice: parents part included for readers still in grade school to high school.
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NEW Source
[B]FOX News
New School Lunch Plan[/B]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZeQEDOvDA[/media]
Source: [url]http://video.foxnews.com/v/4458020/new-school-lunch-plan/[/url]
Don't listen to to the other people's comments, I think you've done a great job! Keep up the good work!
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676060]
Hey, Obum! Why don't you focus on your kids before you tell us, and our parents, how to feed our kids?!
Notice: parents part included for readers still in grade school to high school.[/QUOTE]
Uum, what. They're enforcing healthy foods for local schools, stop getting on her case. This is good, if you didn't notice. Also, what is Obum?
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[quote]Critics of the bill include former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a Republican, who took cookies to an event in Pennsylvania in November to illustrate what she said is the “nanny state run amok.”[/quote]
Oh Palin, you so smart.
I'm fine with them regulating school meals. Anything other than that is, eh.
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676060]Hey, Obum! Why don't you focus on your kids before you tell us, and our parents, how to feed our kids?!
Notice: parents part included for readers still in grade school to high school.[/QUOTE]
Hey, Idiot! Why don't you stop being so hard-headed and open your eyes?!
She's trying to promote healthy foods. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Huh? How is this telling parents how to feed their kids? As far as I see, she only wants to change the school lunches, which I see as a good thing. When kids grow up with unhealthy food each day in school they'll learn to eat that rather than healthy food, it's probably a major contributor to the US obesity problem.
Misleading title, this is only school-based
I hope you realize what a disgusting pile of shit school lunches are.
I eat twice a day because they are just that bad.
But there won't be any little fat kids to pick on any more!
[QUOTE=Shustriy;26676141]Misleading title, this is only school-based[/QUOTE]
It's because the OP got up in arms for not understanding what the article actually says.
[QUOTE=Yumyumbubblegum;26676229]Schools already do this.[/QUOTE]
It's not regulated by the federal government though. Now it is.
Schools already do this.
[quote]The law increases spending on school nutrition programs by $4.5 billion over ten years and encompasses a range of provisions, including offering qualified children breakfast, lunch and dinner at school, as well as meals during the summer. It also includes a pilot program for “organic foods.”[/quote]
Having gone to the public school system for 12 years, I definitely have to say this is definitely a good thing. School lunches are shit (besides the pizza, but that's just because they are dripping in oil). Hell anything that improves the quality and the nutrition of school food is good.
Glaber is just being alarmist again. Oh no the federal government can regulate school food and what can be sold in school vending machines, the horror! The title is so misleading anyway. It's regulating school food, which seeing as schools are regulated by the local, state, and federal governments I don't see a problem.
[QUOTE=chewgo;26676103]Uum, what. They're enforcing healthy foods for local schools, stop getting on her case. This is good, if you didn't notice. Also, what is Obum?[/QUOTE]
If that was the only thing I wouldn't be as upset.
Where's the [B]Bad Reading[/B] rating when you need it?
[quote][B]The law .... encompasses a range of provisions, [I][U]including offering qualified children breakfast, lunch and dinner at school, as well as meals during the summer[/U][/I]. It also includes a pilot program for “organic foods.”[/B][/quote]
This is the part that has me upset the most. With this in place, why should parents bother to feed their kids if the schools are going to do it for them for all 3 meals, and during the Summer too?
It's one thing to improve the School lunches, it's another to expand it to Breakfast and Dinner too.
PS: Obum is Either Michelle or Barack
If you must include vegetables, just make it ketchup as it is a vegetable, so sayeth the holy word of Reagan
I see nothing wrong with this at all.
Oh no, Michelle Obama recognizes that parents today are fucking idiots and can't even manage to raise their own children.
It's only school food THANK FUCK OH MY GOD I CAN EAT LUNCH NOW WITHOUT HAVING TO GO OFF CAMPUS
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676409]If that was the only thing I wouldn't be as upset.
Where's the [B]Bad Reading[/B] rating when you need it?
This is the part that has me upset the most. With this in place, why should parents bother to feed their kids if the schools are going to do it for them for all 3 meals, and during the Summer too?
It's one thing to improve the School lunches, it's another to expand it to Breakfast and Dinner too.
PS: Obum is Either Michelle or Barack[/QUOTE]
So let me get this straight. You are complaining because this means that parents no longer have to feed their children, because schools will now provide that service?
I'm fine with it. Good parents will still feed their kids, and the bad parents still won't. If ever there is a situation where a parent made food for their children, and then stopped because of this service, I doubt they were feeding their children properly anyway. The way I see it, kids in underprivileged homes will now be able to get a healthy meal as opposed to living off of the dollar menu.
How about before we even start getting on this "Healthy food" crap we just have better food in general served in school cafeterias instead of gordon food service everything
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676409]If that was the only thing I wouldn't be as upset.
Where's the [B]Bad Reading[/B] rating when you need it?
This is the part that has me upset the most. With this in place, why should parents bother to feed their kids if the schools are going to do it for them for all 3 meals, and during the Summer too?
It's one thing to improve the School lunches, it's another to expand it to Breakfast and Dinner too.
PS: Obum is Either Michelle or Barack[/QUOTE]Where's the part where it says that it's required to buy breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
They're offering them.
Americans. Whatever it is, they want to individually decide on it.
Now they all sit in their wooden houses, work shitty jobs and stuff their ever growing guts with cheap snacks and fast food.
Freedom.
[QUOTE=XxXKillErXxxX^2;26676555]Americans. Whatever it is, they want to individually decide on it.
Now they all sit in their wooden houses, work shitty jobs and stuff their ever growing guts with cheap snacks and fast food.
Freedom.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, me and my beer belly still have that freedom. All this means is we have to buy it at the grocery store and not from the school lunch. :smugdog:
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676409]This is the part that has me upset the most. With this in place, why should parents bother to feed their kids if the schools are going to do it for them for all 3 meals, and during the Summer too?
It's one thing to improve the School lunches, it's another to expand it to Breakfast and Dinner too.
PS: Obum is Either Michelle or Barack[/QUOTE]
I don't know about where you live, but here the schools provide breakfast and lunch normally, with dinner sent home with some of the REALLY poor kids. Literally, all some people eat is school food. And, if you read the article, this is entirely school-based. The food that the government sells at a discount/gives out to poor people is its own choice.
Anything is better than shit on a shingle and rancid pea soup :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676060]Hey, Obum! Why don't you focus on your kids before you tell us, and our parents, how to feed our kids?!
Notice: parents part included for readers still in grade school to high school.[/QUOTE]
Glaber:
YOU ARE A FUCKING TARD
you cant ever express any opinion without coming across as completely fucking braindead.
Here's the kicker, I agree with you on this one and yet [i]you make the argument sound so fucking stupid I hate you so much.[/i]
[QUOTE=chewgo;26676775]Don't worry, me and my beer belly still have that freedom. All this means is we have to buy it at the grocery store and not from the school lunch. :smugdog:[/QUOTE]
You should use all that freedom and cremate yourself.
[QUOTE=chewgo;26676529]Where's the part where it says that it's required to buy breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
They're offering them.[/QUOTE]
do you know what a school-based feeding program is? It's where they provide the student the meal. The kid or teen doesn't buy it.
[QUOTE=Chilean;26676827]Glaber:
YOU ARE A FUCKING TARD
you cant ever express any opinion without coming across as completely fucking braindead.
Here's the kicker, I agree with you on this one and yet [i]you make the argument sound so fucking stupid I hate you so much.[/i][/QUOTE]
If it's the Obum part, I can swap it out with her real last name.
We're going to make your kids eat healthy whether you like it or not.
[QUOTE=Chilean;26676827]Glaber:
YOU ARE A FUCKING TARD
you cant ever express any opinion without coming across as completely fucking braindead.
Here's the kicker, I agree with you on this one and yet [i]you make the argument sound so fucking stupid I hate you so much.[/i][/QUOTE]
What's not to like? They're providing more, healthier, and better quality, OPTIONAL, meals. How does this infringe on anything?
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[QUOTE=Glaber;26676846]do you know what a school-based feeding program is? It's where they provide the student the meal. The kid or teen doesn't buy it.[/QUOTE]
"The law gives the federal government for the first time the authority to regulate the food sold at local schools"
It doesn't sound like they're giving it away. I think this is talking about all non-private schools' sold meals and vending machines. And here, to the lower income students, they get the same meals, but at reduced price or for free.
[QUOTE=Glaber;26676846]do you know what a school-based feeding program is? It's where they provide the student the meal. The kid or teen doesn't buy it.[/QUOTE]
oh no free food.
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