School Children Teach The Obamas A Powerful Lesson

School nutrition group turns on Michelle O, now fighting federal lunch regulations

SNA officials rightly point out that many students are throwing away the additional fruits and vegetables included in their lunches, amounting to $684 million in food waste every year – or roughly “enough to serve complete reimbursable school lunches to more than 228 million students,” according to the Times.

The association contends the “nutritious” federal lunch menu is also proving costly for many school districts that are now forced to purchase more expensive foods to comply with the new regulations.

SNA reportedly first expressed concerns about the new federal regulations in 2011, and later met with Agriculture Department officials, but have been largely ignored. That prompted SNA leaders to call on Congress instead, and they have now targeted the group’s lobbying efforts at lawmakers in the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, which are considering legislation to waive the nutrition standards for next school year, according to the Times news service.

“SNA saw the appropriations process as the only way of providing our members immediate relief,” Diane Pratt-Heavner, SNA spokeswoman, told the Times.

The SNA’s 180 on the school nutrition standards directly conflicts with other nutrition groups, teachers unions and parent-teacher organizations that want to press forward with the federal lunch regulations regardless of the impact on students or schools.

A problem too, is the “one size meal fits all” idiocy of the program. As noted below, athletic program competitors and other physically active children often need more caloric and protein intake than Queen Obama’s skimpy meals provide. And surprise, surprise, Self acclaimed healthy eating activist-guru Ms. Obama admits she has no training in child nutrition.

Aside from the significant school lunch revenue declines and massive food waste tied to the changes, hungry students across the country have protested against the strict nutrition guidelines.

Many student athletes, for example, have argued their limited-calorie lunches leave them famished. Parents have reported their children are now going without school lunch, then binge eating when they get home. Parents have also complained about ridiculously strict interpretations of the federal lunch rules, which have resulted in a ban on birthday cupcakes in classrooms, among other things.

This doesn’t faze our food-fascist first lady: Michelle Obama will fight to the ‘bitter end’ in school lunch battle

The first lady and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, whose department runs the school meals program, oppose changing the law.

Critics of the association say the about-face is motivated not only by overburdened school officials but also by the food industry. Food companies are some of the association’s highest-paying members and supply schools with most of their food. The industry largely has kept silent through the debate but will spend millions of dollars to reformulate many products to meet the new standards.

“The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids’ health, especially when we’re finally starting to see some progress on this issue,” Mrs. Obama said at the White House, where she met with a group of school nutrition experts, all of whom were friendly toward the standards.

So if that’s the last thing we should be doing, WHY ARE YOU DOING IT Ms. Obama?!

Michelle O was not elected to any office responsible for overseeing school nutrition, but she has inserted herself because, (with her lack of any training in nutrition,) our despotism loving Lady M “knows” what’s best for the children of America, (over the protests of those children, their parents, and local departments of education.)

‘Let them eat broccoli!’

Anything to ‘break the morale’ among the citizens and children in this country huh?

Moochelle – Self designated Food Nazi. “No sweets for YOU”!!!! “No FUN for YOU”!!!

Wonder how HER girls react to being lorded over by a Food Nazi? Bet THEY get sweets!

@James Raider: Someone should interview the kids who are refusing to take orders.

Done and done!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/05/students-fed-up-with-michelle-obamas-school-lunch-overhaul-menu-item-snapshots-spell-out-why/
included photos of said ”healthy” lunches as well as Twitters from many students.

@JamesRaider#5 – Good read by the way.

….indoctrination starts when they’re young, and get them used to being told what to do, how to do it, when to do it.

I see your point but, like it or not sweets and treats are a part of EVERY culture and an American TRADITION!

Problem with all this is once a state sells it’s soul to the Government, through Federal Funds the Government feels it can dictate too many things to the state and all entities involved.

The article is correct, no child wants to be told they cannot have sweets or treats, not by parents and especially the presidents wife – the First Lady. I don’t believe I have ever heard a First Lady prior to Michelle “dictate” to kids and schools they cannot ‘have’ something “fun to eat” AND ‘must’ prepare and serve what ‘she’ thinks they should have…

…that is a dictatorship not choice, not freedom, and not liberty.

the obamas shovel down hamburgers, french fries, lobsters (and an article from New England says she downs 3 at one sitting – which brings to mind another theory being floated around) , milkshakes, cakes, pies etc and yet they demand their subjects eat differently. Who the hell does michelle think she is anyway? She is not an elected official, she has no power and no authority. She is living in the WH because the highest paid temporary federal employee happens to live there. because she went to Harvard she knows better? give me a break.

The progressive radicals are attempting to wean children on being indoctrinated. Their nutrition has nothing to do with this authoritarian program. The children have figured it out, and intuitively, they know what their Administration doesn’t. They’re not buying it. Unlike the parents who reverently re-elected this Administration, the children are reacting to being dictated-to.

One thing I learned through 25 years as a Scoutmaster: Kids can smell BS a mile away.

@Faith7 Not only do the Obama girls get sweets, their father says the chef puts crack in the pie crusts! Smoke ’em if you got ’em!