http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/22/new-study-contradicts-conservative-medias-attac/200173
A new study on school lunches casts doubt on conservative media's politicized rhetoric regarding first lady Michelle Obama's school-lunch initiative.
In January 2012, Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled healthier standards for school lunches, the first effort to do so "in more than fifteen years." However, in May of this year, the new standards suffered a political backlash in Congress. The Washington Post reported that the House Appropriations Committee voted for a "Republican-backed measure" to temporarily roll back the standards in a "party-line vote [that] served as a rebuke of sorts to the first lady."
Right-wing media, who have a poor track record when it comes to talking about school meals, especially free ones, took to attacking Michelle Obama and the school lunch program itself for "plate waste" amid reports that students supposedly didn't like the new, healthier food.
However, a new study published Monday in the journal Childhood Obesity shows that students get used to the new lunches with time. According to The Boston Globe, the study found that "over time, children adapt and tolerate school lunches just as much as in the old days":
why are the republicans against nutrition they decided to let the poor White Appalachian kids get free lunch but denied inner city youths, is it because a hungry kid has less chance of learning thereby keeping them under educated and not a future challenge like Pres. it can't be money we already know the millions of our money they waste on their pet projects making this admin fail at our expense BTW where is the noise about them spending our money to deny us everything, what is wrong with us are we just complacent and willing to give up on ourselves?
this is what the republicans have brought us to and we're making ourselves at home. chew on that for a minute and decide now are you worth fighting for are your kids or your family? if we don't show up Nov. 4th those question are rendered moot and so are we. they talk about the lie that the giov. will take your guns way well let them in and they will take everything away from you and that my friends is no lie. recognize
