Fellow Americans....
Remember that beautiful time when we could eat basically anything we wanted for lunch at school. I remember days when I would bring carrots, apples, and caramel. And that would be the extent of my lunch. I would throw in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every once in awhile. Or I would eat the lunch food at school that somehow passed for nutritious, but usually included some sort of chicken/filler rolled in bread with some raw cauliflower, frozen "juice" pops and jello. I think the sugar content exceeds the sugar I eat now. (If you know me, that is a crazy amount of sugar... oreos are a main staple in my diet). So delicious, right? Anyway, on to my point. The USDA has now taken it upon themselves to start inspecting the lunches that children bring from home to school. A 4 year old in North Carolina was not allowed to eat her Turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice because this inspector deemed it not nutritious enough. Instead, they gave her a lunch of chicken nuggets. Because somehow, in the great scheme of things, breaded chicken nuggets are far nutritiously superior than a turkey sandwich. And get this, the cafeteria sent a bill home for the meal. Are you kidding me? I'm going to get all Constitution up in here. I do not recall anywhere in the Constitution where the Feds were given the power to tell us what to eat, or really anywhere that has anything to do with food... AT ALL. Which kind of undermines the ENTIRE USDA. Just sayin'. Hey, I like food that isn't going to kill me. I've read The Jungle. I know all about it. But come on. A turkey sandwich is not going to hurt a 4 year old. Come off it. This is just the next step to this thing we like to call a nanny state. My mom and dad raised me just fine. I don't need the feds telling me how to raise my kids in the future. But thanks.
NOT OBAMA 2012
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Abbs
The "liberal" side of the family must comment since I actually LIVE in NC and since I had a conversation today, with a friend who works in the state department of health and was professionally knowledgable about the situation. So here are the facts versus the media hype ... 1)the child attends a "more at four" program which is paid for by the NC government and one of their interventions is providing the four basic food groups for participants at lunch. The child was offered milk as she didn't have a dairy product but the young teacher putting them in the lunch line got confused and gave her an entire meal; 2) The school system and preschool program has taken responsibility in every interview as this was never even brought up as a problem until Fox news intervened. in fact in NC, we didn't hear about it until TODAY and I live 50 miles down the road; and finally, 3) the child's guardian (a grandmother) was never charged for the lunch and readily admits that in every interview, too. In fact, all lunches in the program are free everyday if the child chooses to eat them versus bring them from home.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, stories like this are why we have so much division in our country. An honest attempt to help has now been made into an assault on liberty and personal choice when in reality, the government is already paying for the child's preschool. Isn't that a dilema for the conservatives???
Love you Abs and love offering my side ... :)
Aunt Stephanie
Thank you Aunt Stephanie! I want people to give the other side. A forum instead of me spewing all the time! Thank you for clearing up the media bias. I did get my story from Huffington post though! Not a conservative news source! :) Glad you read my blog also!! <3 you
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