Homemade Lunches Bad, Chicken Nuggets Good

We have not weighed in on the issue of the North Carolina four year old who had her lunch taken away and given chicken nuggets instead.  Yes, that did occur!  The child's mother had packed her a lunch with turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, apple juice and potato chips. The government inspector, who still have not been identified, determined this combination did not meet healthy food requirements and insisted the child pay for and eat the chicken nuggets.  Talk about government intrusion into our lives!

We must stop these "goody two shoes" from imposing their views on our lives. If they had been around 25 years ago, we would have all been required to each margarine which now has determined to be one step removed from plastic! Eggs would have been banned however, now we find out that they are good to eat.  All red meat would have been banned but who knows tomorrow we might find out that moderate amounts of meat actually is good for us. 

The science of nutrition has changed over the years and things that were bad are now good and vice versa. Our belief is that all food is good for you as long as it is in moderation. Water is good for you but if you drink too much, you drown! The same thing goes for anything that you put in your mouth, too much is not good.  

Today, we seem to think that science can solve all of our problems and scientists are all knowing. It is far from that and we must become much more skeptical of misleading or junk science.  Just as Alar, (a chemical that was sprayed on apples to keep apples on the trees longer) was supposed to cause cancer. Meryl Streep made a tearful testimony in front of Congress. It all turns out to be a lot of hullaboo about nothing.

Science has made great progress in the past 100 years. Many diseases have been virtually wiped out. However, we cannot worship at the alter of the scientist as many are driven by motives which are not in society's best interests. They have their own agenda.

So it goes with the lunch programs the First Lady is promoting.  Who knows if the current rendition of the ideal food program will be determined to be the right combination. So when government officials take the food away from a child and force her to eat some "manufactured" chicken nugget, it that the best we can do? We don't think so and neither should anyone else.

The government has no right to tell us what we can eat and what we can feed our children. If we allow this, in the future there will be no candy, no sweets, no junk food and no red meat,  only thing left will be lettuce to which we are allergic.  Things don't look good for us in the future.

Tell Mrs. Obama, to feed her children the way she feels they should be and to leave the rest of us alone!

Conservative Tom

A Preview Of Life Under Full-Blown Tyranny

February 17, 2012 by Bob Livingston 

PHOTOS.COM

At West Hoke Elementary School, preschoolers are being forced to supplement their homemade lunches with meals provided by their school.

Imagine a world in which the decisions you make for your children are irrelevant. It’s a world in which the state, rather than the parents, determines what your child must eat for lunch.

Parents in Hoke County, N.C., are experiencing it firsthand, according to Civitas Institute. At West Hoke Elementary School, preschoolers are being forced to supplement their homemade lunches with meals provided by their school because a government inspector has determined the lunches they bring from home don’t meet Federal guidelines.

One mother, who asked not to be identified, told Civitas that she made her daughter a lunch that contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips (that’s reasonably healthful, if you leave out the chips). A state inspector assessing the pre-K program at the school said the girl also needed a vegetable, so the inspector ordered a full school lunch tray for her. So while the 4-year-old was still allowed to eat her home lunch, she was forced to take a helping of processed, chemical-laden chicken nuggets, dead milk, a fruit and a vegetable to supplement her sack lunch.

According to Civitas:

The government inspector was from the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised program at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program gives schools a grade based on standards that include USDA (Department of Agriculture) meal guidelines enforced by the N.C. Division of Early Childhood Development.

The nutrition standards for pre-K lunch require milk, two servings of fruit or vegetable, bread or grains and a meat or meat alternative. The school didn’t receive a high grade from the January assessment because the home-made lunches didn’t meet those guidelines.

The mother said she sent a note to her child’s teacher asking that her child not be required to eat anything that doesn’t come out of her lunch box. But the school continues to require her to take a school meal, even after she complained to cafeteria workers.

She then sent a statement to State Representative G.L. Pridgen (R-Robeson) detailing her complaint. Pridgen says he was shocked to hear it. Pridgen has since learned this is a nationwide practice based on Federal guidelines, according to Civitas.

Contrary to popular belief, the USDA is not interested the health of Americans. If it were, it wouldn’t be making war on raw milk sellers and organic food producers and the natural supplement industry, nor would it allow Monsanto free reign to contaminate crops with genetically modified organisms or food processors like General Mills to make specious claims on the health benefits of their foods.