FOOD POLICE: Complaints Mount Against Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Menu
Sep 23, 2012
Kyle Olson
In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.
Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.
“I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal,” middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.
Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market – for chocolate syrup.
Maybe people should look to see what the nanny mayor of NYC is doing.
School taxes paying for mandated skimpy lunches? Sad. A hearty meal should include ALL choices in the food pyramid.
Students in a video expressing ‘We are Hungry’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo&feature=youtu.be
Eat your own damn peas!
Let the kids eat.
“We are Hungry”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IB7NDUSBOo&feature=youtu.be
Is the original post suggesting that the gov’t is responsible for providing volumes of food and not healthy food. Maybe the kids in Wisconson need to learn how to eat, or maybe they should supplement the program with food from home if they feel that the fat/calories are not enough. The “47%” in the video should wean themselves from entitlements.
Many teens are overweight. The gov’t should not be paying schools to pile on the pounds. If those :athletes” are always hungry they should bring some bread & butter to school as a snack.
How is this Michele Obama’s lunch menu? I don’t think that she is running the school lunch programs in the states. The states have employees who do that.
The lunch in the photo looks pretty good.