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| Kids begin brown-bag boycott of healthier meals |
| 2012-09-08 |
A movement protesting new federal guidelines for healthy school lunches that began in Pennsylvania has spread to Minnesota, where hundreds of students are now bringing brown bags in a boycott of the new menu. Starting this year, there are strict limits on calories, sodium and meat portions. Whole milk is off the menu altogether, and kids are required to take a fruit or vegetable. As parents with fussy eaters might guess, some student's aren't salivating over those options. In the halls of Rockford High School, a food fight over some simple things -- cookies, condiments and milk -- has started taking off after seniors Adam Anderson and Zach Guthrie set up a Facebook group encouraging a brown bag boycott. Bags were prepared in advance, bearing messages like, "Where's the ranch?" and "We want our cookies." By Thursday, the school served about 150 fewer lunches than it had the day before, and students promise the movement will only continue to grow even though there may be no resolution. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #9 My wife works in a school cafeteria she says we now have the healthiest garbage cans in school history. If the kids do not accept all parts of a balanced meal they are charged al a cart prices which charges them more for less food. Parents tell them to take the full meal and toss what you do not want. |
| Posted by: airandee 2012-09-08 11:49 |
| #8 The FIFY. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-09-08 10:21 |
| #7 The Queen of America will not be happy. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-09-08 09:10 |
| #6 But, but, but wait! GH is harmless, harmless I tell you. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-09-08 08:20 |
| #5 Growth hormones in livestock must be stopped two weeks before butcher time in Europe I understand. Here continued use till butchering time. I believe antibiotics use also. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-09-08 07:33 |
| #4 This would rather ruin the meddlers day |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-09-08 07:22 |
| #3 My grand kids are throwing out their meals. The only thing they have been eating has been pizza when offered. The cafeteria help are required to record what your children are bringing in to school to eat at lunch time. That interferes with timely lunch line flow. So the kids pack so they can eat right off and not miss their lunch. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-09-08 07:17 |
| #2 Yeah - easy way out of this one. Ban outside food as it might be unhealthy. Look for it to happen soon. After all, we've already established the precedent that people might make the wrong decisions when given freedom. |
| Posted by: gromky 2012-09-08 01:24 |
| #1 Pretty soon there'll be a TSA station at every school entrance confiscating food "contraband". The feds aren't going to let the kiddies get the better of them! Our liberty is being lost by the "death of a thousand cuts." How long before "We the People" get disgusted enough to do something about it? Ever? |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2012-09-08 01:16 |