http://www.alternet.org/education/why-wingnuts-are-waging-war-against-michelle-obamas-school-lunch-program
The congressional battle to save America’s children from the scourge of nutritious school lunches and reinstate the Old Guard of frozen pizza and chicken nuggets is heating up. And since first lady Michelle Obama is now participating, the level of argument should devolve from “school lunch personnel have some concerns about the implementation of new regulations” to “ARGLE BARGLE ELITIST BWWWARRR!” in short order.
As we wrote last week, House Republicans are trying to insert a provision into the latest agriculture spending bill that would grant waivers to schools that can prove they’re losing money meeting nutrition standards outlined under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
This measure, which Michelle Obama lobbied heavily for during the 2010 lame-duck session, authorized funding for federal school lunch programs to begin serving more fruits, vegetables and whole-grain pasta and less sodium-saturated frozen fried crap. This didn’t go over well with the well-funded sodium-saturated frozen fried crap industry and its army of lobbyists. Now the same shady operators who fought tooth-and-nail over retaining pizza’s status as a vegetable are back, trying to keep America’s children nice and plump.
if i might quote Reagan "there they go again", you your children are relegated to a list that puts money above your well being but is that really all it is? remember Eric Canter wanted his home state Va. to bwait for disaster help while they fiureout who's going to pay for it?
they want to provide privatized teaching of their curriculum, they want to keep our kids dumb, they want to not feed kids in urban areas but the one's in the under informed areas they can get a voucher sounds like the culture war by republicans has just been taken out of the freezer. a child that is hungry cannot learn thereby keeping the educational advancement low in those areas ripe for privatizing in their heads anyway.
At first, the arguments by House Appropriations Committee chair Rep. Hal Rogers and subcommittee chair Rep. Robert Aderholt focused on what they were hearing from “lunch ladies” about the waste stemming from these new provisions. “The problem is, kids are saying ‘I don’t want it,’ and they go someplace else to get their food,” Rogers said.
Aderholt, meanwhile, denied that he was hearing from “industry” on this issue. “I don’t know where industry is on this,” he said. “I am hearing from lunch ladies I talk to.” As we noted, the “lunch ladies” in question are members of the main lobbying group behind this waiver, the School Nutrition Association, which represents school lunch professionals but gets plenty of funding from the enormous corporations that produce food items.
if there is a problem with funding kill loopholes for rich, corporate welfare and tax fairness is a source for republicans to not deny children in poor areas to underachieve but to thrive or are they afraid of future Barack Hussein Obama's coming out of the ashes? getting those already in your corner to serve as witness to your deception is the epitome of egregiousness.
slapping the First Lady, gravy on their mashed potatos.
