In Raeford, NC, schoolkids have reportedly been forced to eat school lunches after a government inspector determined their home-made lunches didn't meet the nutritional requirements of a state-funded education program.
In one case, a girl who brought a lunch containing a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, apple juice and potato chips was forced to also take a school-prepared lunch consisting of chicken nuggets, milk, a fruit and a vegetable to supplement her sack lunch. Why? Because her lunch from home didn't have a vegetable (sadly, potatoes don't count).
The school lunch doesn't sound much healthier than the one the girl brought from home, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend money to give a meal to a child who already has one. The real agenda behind the inspection and monitoring of school cafeterias isn't nutrition; it's more about conditioning kids to think that government should provide and approve of the food they eat.
School cafeterias are becoming the front lines in America's food wars. The food cops and the liberals running the public schools (and those groups overlap quite a bit) are trying to use kids as a way to get to their parents. As "First Lunch Lady" Michelle Obama has said, “That's why we start with kids, right? We can affect who they will be forever ... They're changing the way they think about their health and they're trickling that information down to their families.” In the real world, parents try to educate their kids and shape their "habits and preferences," not the other way around.
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