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Feb 16 12 4:23 PM
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Feb 16 12 5:02 PM
By Jacob Sullum
Carolina Journal reports that a state inspector at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford, North Carolina, recently deemed a 4-year-old girl's home-packed lunch nutritionally inadequate, decreeing that it be replaced by food from the school cafeteria.
The magazine, which is published by the John Locke Foundation, explains the source of this lunch review authority:
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs—including in-home day care centers—to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.
But Jani Kozlowski, the division's fiscal and statutory policy manager, tells Carolina Journal the rejected lunch—which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips, and apple juice—did in fact meet USDA guidelines, which call for one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables.
By contrast, the meal the girl ending up eating thanks to the state employee's prodding—three chicken nuggets—did not. Adding insult to injury, the school billed the little girl's mother (who complained to her state representative but did not want to be publicly identified) $1.25 for the mandated substitution.
I will take this with a grain of salt, also should be FDA Approved guidelines.
WTF was this inspector thinking. If the child had a subway sandwich and a bag of salty chips with super sweet drink, would that have been better? If this is true, then I would suspect the inspector of having a brother who owns the catering service to the cafeteria.
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Feb 16 12 7:25 PM
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...what's a poor Republican to do?
Feb 16 12 7:39 PM
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Feb 16 12 8:10 PM
Ich geh' in Flammen auf....
Feb 16 12 8:13 PM
Ooo! Ooo! I have a suggestion.
Feb 16 12 9:28 PM
...but extending the mandate to home made lunches? Seems just a little intrusive and overbearing.
Feb 16 12 9:30 PM
That's disgusticatin'!
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Feb 17 12 2:28 AM
Feb 17 12 6:15 AM
Dems tend to think they have to do stuff for your own good
Feb 17 12 6:50 AM
...making sure even your homemade lunch conforms to standards for 'healthy' food strikes me as a leftish sorta thing as opposed to right.
Feb 17 12 7:06 AM
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Feb 17 12 8:10 PM
The poor Repuplican does the same as the poor Democrat, votes for "their"candidate, and gets shafted, because "their" candidate isn't working for the poor Republican or the poor Democrate, they are working for the corporation that paid for their election campaign.
Feb 18 12 7:14 AM
Now that is an astute observation.
Feb 18 12 8:16 AM
tracyannef wrote:The poor Republican does the same as the poor Democrat, votes for "their"candidate, and gets shafted, because "their" candidate isn't working for the poor Republican or the poor Democrat, they are working for the corporation that paid for their election campaign.
The poor Republican does the same as the poor Democrat, votes for "their"candidate, and gets shafted, because "their" candidate isn't working for the poor Republican or the poor Democrat, they are working for the corporation that paid for their election campaign.
Feb 18 12 4:55 PM
And since the corporations are the ones paying for it all, and since we have a bunch of Morons in the court systems thanks to the likes of Regan and Bush who have declared that it's the dollar that votes, not the person,
It seems to me, as an outersider that the who or whom it was that set this running this way is rather irrelevent, as I don't either side of US politics rushing to change this state of affairs. When was the last time Obama, or the Dems in general made any move to change the current system?
You are also not going to see any change, as both side of US politics are doing very well, financially, out of the current staus quo, and to hell with the voters. and the rest of the unwashed rabble.
Feb 18 12 5:04 PM
Feb 18 12 5:13 PM
I'm not sure that I have an answer, but clearly partisan politics at the voter level isn't working for the American people.
Feb 18 12 6:38 PM
You are also not going to see any change, as both side of US politics are doing very well, financially, out of the current staus quo, and to hell with the voters. and the rest of the unwashed rabble.- Tracyanne
Feb 19 12 12:16 AM
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