Yuk!

[Boca]

Denver school administrators finally got a taste of their own school lunches, proving once and for all how truly disgusting and terrible Michelle Obama’s lunch program is.

Obama chose to redact $170,000 in funding for a Minnesota school that opted out..... It is clear as day that Michelle’s lunch program is a gigantic failure. But rather than either fix it or scrap it, President Obama apparently prefers punishing schools that have the courage to stand up to his him and his wife.

And by punishing schools, Obama is doing nothing more than punishing the students who attend them.

How much more petty can the man possibly get?

 

[Jen]

Denver school administrators finally got a taste of their own school lunches, proving once and for all how truly disgusting and terrible Michelle Obama’s lunch program is.

Obama chose to redact $170,000 in funding for a Minnesota school that opted out..... It is clear as day that Michelle’s lunch program is a gigantic failure. But rather than either fix it or scrap it, President Obama apparently prefers punishing schools that have the courage to stand up to his him and his wife.

And by punishing schools, Obama is doing nothing more than punishing the students who attend them.

How much more petty can the man possibly get?

I don't think it's any accident that Michelle's program calls for nasty inedible food that poses as "healthy" food to slap people she hates. Not sure if she is slapping who she thinks she's slapping, but in her fantasies I'm sure she is doing just that.

Nobody has the cajones to stand up to Obama and Michelle. They are now hurting children. How much more will they be allowed to do before it stops?

 

[Drumcollie]

I don't think it's any accident that Michelle's program calls for nasty inedible food that poses as "healthy" food to slap people she hates. Not sure if she is slapping who she thinks she's slapping, but in her fantasies I'm sure she is doing just that.

Nobody has the cajones to stand up to Obama and Michelle. They are now hurting children. How much more will they be allowed to do before it stops?

wow abuse at the lunch program when will they stop!

 

[Addy]

wow abuse at the lunch program when will they stop!

Hoping this issue can be resolved quickly...if it's that terrible. You and Jen seem quite hysterical over this school lunch issue.

 

[Max R.]

Obesity is a national problem, but it's also a national security issue. It's quite common for people to get stupid over politics, but when that stupidity starts affecting national security, I become concerned.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736119/

Purpose of review
To understand how obesity affects national security by focusing on three case study countries—the United States, China, and Mexico.

Recent findings
While in the United States and Mexico, over two-thirds of adults are overweight and obese compared to about 29% of Chinese, large increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity have occurred in all three countries in the past two decades. National security is affected in the US ranges both from an economic perspective-- increasing health care problems and costs to the point where our labor costs have reached uncompetitive cost levels, and from a military preparedness perspective, namely our overweight soldiers are unable to perform normal activities and functions required of soldiers. In both Mexico and China, it is the economic and health system costs that are dominant concerns, both the costs of obesity-related medical care and the productivity of the work force are creating potential long-term effects on economic competitiveness.

Summary
Obesity is adversely affecting the welfare, economic, and in some cases military security of these three countries.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.fat.fight/index.html

.....More than a quarter of young adults are unable to meet physical requirements to join the military, creating a potential threat to national security, a group of retired armed forces leaders said Tuesday.

"It's not drug abuse, it's not asthma, it's not flat feet -- by far the leading medical reason is being overweight or obese," said retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip at a news conference.

About 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military, according to Mission: Readiness, a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders.

Mission: Readiness' report, "Too Fat to Fight," said that 75 percent of young Americans between the ages of 17 to 24 do not qualify for the military because of failure to graduate [from high school], criminal records or physical problems. The study cited Department of Defense and health data.

Different branches of the military have their own policies, but they all measure strength, body fat, aerobic capacity, weight and height, Seip said.

A person must pass the physical fitness standards at the time he or she signs up for enlistment. These standards include sit-ups and push-ups.

"The logic is pretty obvious," said retired Army Brig. Gen. Clara Adams-Ender. "The troops need to be in excellent physical condition because of the demands of the important jobs they do in defense. Rigorous physical and mental standards are critical if we are to maintain the fighting readiness of our military."...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/06/frum.obesity.military/

....Congress is passionately debating whether open homosexuality is compatible with military service. But even as this particular culture war seems headed to resolution, a new emerging cultural divide is tearing at military efficiency: obesity and overweight.

In 2008, some 634 military personnel were discharged for transgressing "don't ask, don't tell." That same year, 4,555 were discharged for failing to meet military weight standards.

Young adults "too fat to fight"

Military weight standards are not especially demanding. Male recruits younger than 27 must have a body-fat percentage below 26%. That's twice the fat you'd expect in a young man in peak physical condition.

Yet even the relaxed 26% standard is too stringent for modern America. More than 9 million young Americans -- about one in four -- are too overweight to enlist, a recent report found.....

 

[Boca]

Hoping this issue can be resolved quickly...if it's that terrible. You and Jen seem quite hysterical over this school lunch issue.

The issue you don't seem to understand, or are just dodging, is not school lunches. It's the arrogance of a man with a pen to withold funds from feeding children simply because he can.

And I suspect he takes great satisfying power trip pleasure in it.

Imagine if you can the media and liberal democrat hell that would break loose if George Bush had withheld funds for children's lunches.

You can't can you?

 

[Addy]

And I suspect he takes great satisfying power trip pleasure in it.

I suspect not, he has two children of his own. Some children have a hard time dealing with more nutritous food. Maybe it's because they're used to eating more refined foods fortified with sugar, salt and artificial flavors, to enhance them.
With all honesty, I believe the healthy food menus are for the benefit and health of the children.
******
While many schools have implemented the new standards successfully, others have said it's not working for them. The schools pushing for changes say limits on sodium and requirements for more whole grains are particularly challenging, while some school officials say kids are throwing away fruits and vegetables they are required to take.
The changes have been pushed by the School Nutrition Association, a group that counts both school nutrition directors and the food companies that produce many of the school foods among its members. The group said this week that a survey it conducted of more than 1,100 school lunch operators showed that more than half predict program expenses will exceed revenue this year.
Advocates for the healthier meal standards say the changes will take time. They predict there will be fewer problems as kids get used to the new foods and the food industry creates more tasty products that follow the standards, like whole grain pastas and tortillas that are now required to be served.
As schools have complained, USDA has shown some flexibility in tweaking the standards. In 2012, just a few months after the first rules went into effect, the department scrapped maximums on proteins and grains after students complained they were hungry. And USDA said earlier this year that schools can put off for two years a requirement that all pastas in schools be whole-grain rich, or more than half whole grain, if they can demonstrate that they have had "significant challenges" in preparing the pasta.
The year-end spending bill won't be the last time Congress takes on the school meal standards, as the overall law governing child nutrition policy, including school lunches, expires next year. Both the House and the new Republican Senate are expected to consider changes to the meal standards as part of legislation renewing the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/gop-healthy-school-lunch-waiver_n_6290516.html

 

[Boca]

I suspect not, he has two children of his own. Some children have a hard time dealing with more nutritous food. Maybe it's because they're used to eating more refined foods fortified with sugar, salt and artificial flavors, to enhance them.
With all honesty, I believe the healthy food menus are for the benefit and health of the children.
******
While many schools have implemented the new standards successfully, others have said it's not working for them. The schools pushing for changes say limits on sodium and requirements for more whole grains are particularly challenging, while some school officials say kids are throwing away fruits and vegetables they are required to take.
The changes have been pushed by the School Nutrition Association, a group that counts both school nutrition directors and the food companies that produce many of the school foods among its members. The group said this week that a survey it conducted of more than 1,100 school lunch operators showed that more than half predict program expenses will exceed revenue this year.
Advocates for the healthier meal standards say the changes will take time. They predict there will be fewer problems as kids get used to the new foods and the food industry creates more tasty products that follow the standards, like whole grain pastas and tortillas that are now required to be served.
As schools have complained, USDA has shown some flexibility in tweaking the standards. In 2012, just a few months after the first rules went into effect, the department scrapped maximums on proteins and grains after students complained they were hungry. And USDA said earlier this year that schools can put off for two years a requirement that all pastas in schools be whole-grain rich, or more than half whole grain, if they can demonstrate that they have had "significant challenges" in preparing the pasta.
The year-end spending bill won't be the last time Congress takes on the school meal standards, as the overall law governing child nutrition policy, including school lunches, expires next year. Both the House and the new Republican Senate are expected to consider changes to the meal standards as part of legislation renewing the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/gop-healthy-school-lunch-waiver_n_6290516.html

Once again you dodge the point that Obama stopped the funding of some school lunch programs.

Is it too painful for you to admit?

 

[Max R.]

The issue you don't seem to understand, or are just dodging, is not school lunches. It's the arrogance of a man with a pen to withold funds from feeding children simply because he can.

And I suspect he takes great satisfying power trip pleasure in it.

Imagine if you can the media and liberal democrat hell that would break loose if George Bush had withheld funds for children's lunches.

You can't can you?

Ummm, those are my tax dollars. If I have to feed other people's little bastards darlings, I'd prefer it be healthy food not sugar and fats. Let their parents take them to McDonalds on their own dime.

 

[middleview]

Denver school administrators finally got a taste of their own school lunches, proving once and for all how truly disgusting and terrible Michelle Obama’s lunch program is.

Obama chose to redact $170,000 in funding for a Minnesota school that opted out..... It is clear as day that Michelle’s lunch program is a gigantic failure. But rather than either fix it or scrap it, President Obama apparently prefers punishing schools that have the courage to stand up to his him and his wife.

And by punishing schools, Obama is doing nothing more than punishing the students who attend them.

How much more petty can the man possibly get?

Funny thing....I can't find anything in any government documents that would have required
a cold chicken patty to be served on a burned bun

Also no requirement that strawberries be served frozen.

Blame Michelle if you like, but this looks more like an incompetent kitchen staff....

 

[middleview]

I don't think it's any accident that Michelle's program calls for nasty inedible food that poses as "healthy" food to slap people she hates. Not sure if she is slapping who she thinks she's slapping, but in her fantasies I'm sure she is doing just that.

Nobody has the cajones to stand up to Obama and Michelle. They are now hurting children. How much more will they be allowed to do before it stops?

Where have you found proof that Michelle's lunch program calls for burnt buns and frozen strawberries?

 

[middleview]

The issue you don't seem to understand, or are just dodging, is not school lunches. It's the arrogance of a man with a pen to withold funds from feeding children simply because he can.

And I suspect he takes great satisfying power trip pleasure in it.

Imagine if you can the media and liberal democrat hell that would break loose if George Bush had withheld funds for children's lunches.

You can't can you?

The school districts know that if they refuse federal guidlines they lose funding....Same as with highway funds and compliance with speed limit rules....The issue never reached Obama's desk

Oh..and I'm sure you will contact your republican congress critters over this:

A new GOP push to dramatically cut federal spending for summer school lunch programs comes after years of right-wing media misinformation about and attacks against funding for school lunch programs.
On May 19, House Republicans proposed an agriculture budget that would cut the summer lunch program for low-income schoolchildren in urban areas

 

[BitterPill]

I don't think it's any accident that Michelle's program calls for nasty inedible food that poses as "healthy" food to slap people she hates. Not sure if she is slapping who she thinks she's slapping, but in her fantasies I'm sure she is doing just that.

Nobody has the cajones to stand up to Obama and Michelle. They are now hurting children. How much more will they be allowed to do before it stops?

I don't think you can blame the Obamas for this. As Middleview pointed out, it looks like a poorly run cafeteria is the more likely culprit.

Think about it, if school lunches were suddenly indigestible, it wouldn't be confined to just one school or district, it would be widespread.

 

[BitterPill]

The issue you don't seem to understand, or are just dodging, is not school lunches. It's the arrogance of a man with a pen to withold funds from feeding children simply because he can.

And I suspect he takes great satisfying power trip pleasure in it.

Imagine if you can the media and liberal democrat hell that would break loose if George Bush had withheld funds for children's lunches.

You can't can you?

W did cut school lunches, and hell was raised, but it didn't seem to matter.

 

[as seen on tv]

explain to me why its the federal government's job to pay for public school cafeterias in the first place, instead of local voters/taxpayers?

 

[Barbella]

I suspect not, he has two children of his own. Some children have a hard time dealing with more nutritous food. Maybe it's because they're used to eating more refined foods fortified with sugar, salt and artificial flavors, to enhance them.
With all honesty, I believe the healthy food menus are for the benefit and health of the children.
******
While many schools have implemented the new standards successfully, others have said it's not working for them. The schools pushing for changes say limits on sodium and requirements for more whole grains are particularly challenging, while some school officials say kids are throwing away fruits and vegetables they are required to take.
The changes have been pushed by the School Nutrition Association, a group that counts both school nutrition directors and the food companies that produce many of the school foods among its members. The group said this week that a survey it conducted of more than 1,100 school lunch operators showed that more than half predict program expenses will exceed revenue this year.
Advocates for the healthier meal standards say the changes will take time. They predict there will be fewer problems as kids get used to the new foods and the food industry creates more tasty products that follow the standards, like whole grain pastas and tortillas that are now required to be served.
As schools have complained, USDA has shown some flexibility in tweaking the standards. In 2012, just a few months after the first rules went into effect, the department scrapped maximums on proteins and grains after students complained they were hungry. And USDA said earlier this year that schools can put off for two years a requirement that all pastas in schools be whole-grain rich, or more than half whole grain, if they can demonstrate that they have had "significant challenges" in preparing the pasta.
The year-end spending bill won't be the last time Congress takes on the school meal standards, as the overall law governing child nutrition policy, including school lunches, expires next year. Both the House and the new Republican Senate are expected to consider changes to the meal standards as part of legislation renewing the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/gop-healthy-school-lunch-waiver_n_6290516.html

I'm sorry, addy... does the food in the tp look healthy, nutritious, or even EDIBLE to you?

 

[Max R.]

explain to me why its the federal government's job to pay for public school cafeterias in the first place, instead of local voters/taxpayers?

I tend to agree. OTOH, why should children suffer because their state or locality is poor?

Is it the Federal government's job (I.E. the US taxpayer) to help those who build homes and businesses below sea level in a hurricane zone, on a fault line or in Tornado Alley?

 

[middleview]

I'm sorry, addy... does the food in the tp look healthy, nutritious, or even EDIBLE to you?

Is that because the kitchen staff are incompetent or is it because federal guidelines say that buns must be burnt, chicken patties served cold and strawberries frozen?

 

[PhilFish]

Funny thing....I can't find anything in any government documents that would have required
a cold chicken patty to be served on a burned bun

Also no requirement that strawberries be served frozen.

Blame Michelle if you like, but this looks more like an incompetent kitchen staff....

there's the crux of the matter. michelle O doesnt choose the foods to meet the standards...the schools do.

 

[middleview]

Denver school administrators finally got a taste of their own school lunches, proving once and for all how truly disgusting and terrible Michelle Obama’s lunch program is.

Obama chose to redact $170,000 in funding for a Minnesota school that opted out..... It is clear as day that Michelle’s lunch program is a gigantic failure. But rather than either fix it or scrap it, President Obama apparently prefers punishing schools that have the courage to stand up to his him and his wife.

And by punishing schools, Obama is doing nothing more than punishing the students who attend them.

How much more petty can the man possibly get?

The school you are talking about has very few kids who are eligible for subsidized meals. The school bumped prices by $.50....BFD. It was their choice.

Now, Wayzata students can choose whether to take produce, meals can have 1,000 calories instead of 750, and a student favorite — homemade macaroni and cheese — is back, she said.
“Lots of double and triple portions when that’s served,” she said.

Double and triple portions of Mac & Cheese? Do you actually want the federal government to pay for a pretty well to do school district to feed their chubby little angels?