Beaverton School students will now be forced to put fruits and veggies on their school lunch plate.
"Starting this September, you can rest assured that your student's lunch tray will actually have fruits and/or vegetables on it!This is in comportment with Michelle Obama's Let's Move nutrition program.
New USDA guidelines now require that student choose a 1/2 cup fruit or vegetable as part of their school lunch. (Believe it or not, previously students didn't have to choose any fruits or vegetable as part of their complete meal!)
If your student hasn't already been a regular at the school's salad bar, he or she will be surprised at the wide variety of fruits and vegetables available to taste each day.....and that really is good news for good nutrition!"
Notice the faux chagrin that they hadn't been forcing kids to take fruits and vegetables before. And look, they sound happy about their totalitarian policies, "...this is really good news for nutrition!" Good news for kids? Their parents? No, for "nutrition."
As you can see from the Beaverton School District flyer, kids will have no choice except WHAT KIND of fruits and veggies they can put on their plate.
No word yet on what happens if a child is allergic to the items, cross contamination of allergens occurs, it makes a kid puke to eat the stuff, or the child chooses not to eat them. Those questions don't appear to be answered in the ares of the BDS Nutrition Services websites. It sounds as if the District has made a deal with produce providers and it doesn't much matter if the kids actually eat the stuff.
Many changes are also coming to the Portland School District. Some schools will feature Food Police, called the Food Corps. This is a make work job for college age kids. The Food Corps "volunteers" (who are paid*) be showing kids how to garden and eat well. Yes, these would be the same kids who have survived college on Rock Star, rahman and cigarettes who will be telling your kid how to eat--and you get to pay for it! See my posts on these plans and the Multnomah Food Action Plan here, here, here, here for starters.
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It's amazing how your child's lunch plate is impacted by a non elected person whose only nutritional bonafides are that she used to eat at a Chicago restaurant that served lots of arugula and now has people tending her vegetable garden at the White House!
This represents a change in the school lunch program. No longer will the lunch ladies merely offer certain foods to be in compliance with government recommendations, now they must force kids to take the food to be in compliance with government requirements.
Beaverton schools provide breakfast, lunch, "carbohydrate" and supper. There's really no need for Mom and Dad anymore. They can just drop the kids off for ten hours of babysitting. How soon can we expect plans for a student overnight program? After all, if the state is calling the shots on what a child must eat, irrespective of Mom and Dad, then why do we need parents at all? After all, the state says it's "good!" Case closed. *Liberals believe "volunteers" should be paid, the same way they believe government is a charity.
Smells like a reason to justify the subsidies to farmers to me. Why, just look at the new and "unexpected" spike in the demand for vegetables in the youth age group.
ReplyDeleteSam Adams must have been looking at insider information when he conspired with the garbage firms to shove compost bind down Portland's throat, I reckon. Most all of the servings the students will be REQUIRED to select will end up making more money for USDA, the farmer, the City, AND Waste Management.
Thank you for having me on your show today about the latest soft Tyranny from the Beaverton School district. For those parents who live in the Socialist Republic of Beaverton, the next School Board meeting is on August 27th. Follow the link for details: https://www.facebook.com/events/331241006963327/
ReplyDeleteHi Steve,
ReplyDeleteYour not far off as the Multnomah food plan calls for the use as much as possible of locally grown food items as possible so you can expect the need to subsidize those local farmers.
You're all worked up over fruits and vegetables? And calling it "totalitarian?" Are you serious?
ReplyDeleteNo, Matt. The problem stems from the USDA requiring 1/2 cup fruit/vegetable on every plate served at school. The USDA requirement applies nation-wide. This is not a Beaverton-only thing.
DeleteThe schools know from experience how much of this they could expect to be ordered and eaten ordinarily. However, now they are forced to put veggies on the plates of everyone. I think it is reasonable to expect that the extra rations will mostly go in the garbage.
So there goes ton after ton of food commodities which otherwise would have been sold elsewhere, not grown at all in favor of a farm product that someone DOES want, etc., and the food price will rise due to the un-natural demand.
Makes no sense from any point of view that is customarily associated with a free country.
i love how you purpousfully conjured an image of torture through force feeding. what a lie. thats why republicans are losing all over the country. The independant voters are tired of your lying Victoria, give it up. Force Feeding, absolutely irresponsible. Coming from the party of personal responsiblity, you must have left the Republican party.
ReplyDeleteTorture. What a beautiful word to illustrate the nature of the leftie mind.
DeleteHate words. Fighting words.
How about simply accepting the simple fact that DEMANDING the compensation of farmers to grow (or not) particular crops, and the purchase, and the industrial processing, and the packaging and delivery, and the cooking, and the wages and expense of all-of-the above, and the eating of the vegetables (whether or not the consumption is a welcome thing), at the expense of taxpayers at the federal, state AND the local school level (whether or not they want any PART of it) is an UN-AMERICAN demand upon the freedom and the free enterprise of EVERYONE in the stinking CHAIN OF EVENTS?
What for? To serve untold MILLIONS of TONS of fruit and vegetables that NOBODY wants. Pretty stupid, isn't it, VFD?
I think so.
Which is the reason I strongly dislike Obama, his administration, his minions, and his supporters.
Have a wonderful day.
Who brought up torture? Anyone? Anyone? Yeah the lib brought up torture. Please make a note of it.
DeleteYou're against subsidies for farmers but you don't mind giving billions to oil companies?
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