Friday, January 17, marked former First Lady Michelle Obama's 56th birthday.

It was also the day that the US Department of Agriculture announced new rules regarding school lunches — rules that would roll back Obama's signature policies promoting healthy lunches.

The timing, the USDA told The New York Times, was unintentional.

Among Obama's portfolio of policy initiatives as first lady were those meant to curb childhood obesity and promote a healthy lifestyle. "Let's Move!" promoted exercise, and she advocated for the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which passed in 2010.

The law "authorized funding and set policy for USDA's core child nutrition programs," according to the USDA. One of these was the National School Lunch Program, which feeds roughly 30 million children in the United States.


It set higher nutrition standards, encouraged more fruits and vegetables, and reduced sodium, saturated fat and trans fat intake.

The new, Trump-era rules are aimed at reducing food waste, the USDA said in a press release. The proposal would make "it easier for schools to offer school lunch entrees for a la carte purchase," allow "schools adjust fruit servings and making it simpler to offer meats/meat alternates," and would allow schools to "offer more vegetable varieties."

"Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common-sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened and now we're getting to work," said Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a statement.

Critics of the new proposals say that food waste was an issue before Michelle Obama's healthy initiative.The Times reports that some also worry the the vegetable rule change will allow schools to purchase cheaper, less healthy vegetables.


The a la carte rule has also prompted concern. Colin Schwartz, deputy director of legislative affairs for Center for Science in the Public Interest, told The Post that the new rule could pave "the way for children to choose pizza, burgers, french fries and other foods high in calories, saturated fat or sodium in place of balanced school meals every day."

Supporters of the rule change include food producers, some school districts, and the School Nutrition Association, a trade group representing school food-service workers and food manufacturers.

This is not the first time that the USDA under the Trump administration has proposed new rule that alter provisions from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

A 2018 rule loosened school nutrition standards: it allows for flavored milk, lowers the required amount of whole grains served, and extends the timeline for reducing sodium.

The rules proposed Friday will be formalized on January 23, and have a 60-day public comment period.

The lunchlady?

https://youtu.be/VY14zcUM9SI

Her lunch rules were a clear case of white milk supremacy. And the people in her party dare to call others white supremacists...

Do you have kids or grandkids in school?I have five ages 5 to 15 and of those five all eat relatively healthy while one eats as healthy as any child I have ever spent time with,his mid day snack is a bag of salad.They would all eat a fruit bowl for lunch if offered but school lunches are more about lima beans rolled in dog schit. They attend four different schools and none will eat the crap served at any of them.My 13 year old granddaughter skips lunch but starts with a good homemade breakfast and usually has a peanut butter on whole wheat as soon as she arrives home.The others take their lunch and all wish they could just have peanut butter sandwiches for lunch but that's out of the question in all schools as we know.So my question to anyone stating what you did above is...…..Why the **** would we serve food to kids they will not eat?Is there anything healthy about serving inedible crap to children?


BTW from the looks of Moochelle she could stand a years worth of her signature school lunches 3x daily.Fat **** ing bitch

I have 6 grandkids.

I assume your parents never served you food you refused to eat, but many do for all the right reasons - you may call it all the “left” reasons. Plainly more reform is needed, but right blindly equates freedom with lack of regulation - however reasonable the regulation might be.

Been looking at Michelle huh? Go a thing for black booty I take it.....

The schools rarely can instill a behavior unless it's reinforced at home. Diet isn't any different. Lot easier to find a KFC or Taco Bell than it is a Jolly Green Giant or Birdseye drive through. Wonder why?

I am not sure how many school campuses allowed people to leave campus before school hours were over but it's not like you can watch 1000+ kids 24/7. You don't have to disallow it or be unsupportive, they are going to do it regardless. They are going to do it more-so if their only option is salad and not OK to be white no fat milk.

Even though fast food is a contributor, the obesity epidemic and diabetes problem started in the 70s, when the FDA adopted Ancel Key's flawed and non-peer reviewed study as gospel truth. Since that time, and the FDA's war on fat, obesity, diabetes and heart disease has sky rocketed. Fast food is definitely a contributor, but so is the recommended high carb, low fat diet. Newer studies are showing that a diet high in carbs and low in healthy fats, leads to inflammation, fatty liver and insulin resistance. Some researchers now believe that inflammation and not fat, is the actual cause of most heart disease and cancer. Insulin resistance leads directly to diabetes.

I believe that Michelle Obama's heart was in the right place, and she desired to do good, but by using the FDA's outdated and flawed recommendations, her lunch plan will do more harm in the long run. Just my opinion from the research I have done, and my personal health experience after switching to a low carb, healthy high fat diet. No one has to agree.

David

That sir, is a totally fair and apparently informed opinion on the issue. I would tip my hat, but I am not on the golf course right now.

While we still look to find the best diet for all, it seems to largely be influenced by business concerns. Too bad for us and our kids.

I will add to your point by acknowledging that the road to hell is not only paved with good intentions, but it is also well lit.

i really don’t spend much time looking for “the best solution” outside of work - where it pays to. Most people would not accept the best solution even if it got you drunk and gave you an orgasm.

Who told you eating meat is bad? The Left??? I eat meat, lots of it, with a focus on the kinds that are better for you. And the Wife is on Keto - read meat 24/7.

Going green is bad.....really? So, you think going green means eating salad?
Are you at all aware of progressive views, perspectives, voting preferences?

Well, I can see you are not stupid....







So...arn’t the windmills going to fix the pig farts?

I will admit that the mental image of conservative with a Democrat’s bone in their mouth has a certain appeal...

I mean the Right needs their meat.

Wow dude. Hard core. Let's just hope that was all tongue in cheek.

As far as some on the left who preach that forcing everyone to go vegan would save the planet, here's what I've found. According to some researchers, forcing the planet to go vegan would result in massive starvation. The planet can not support our current world population on a plant based diet void of animal protein. Check out the YouTube channels of some of these vegans that have been doing it for 10 - 20 years. Not only do they look like concentration camp suvivors, but their lack of animal based complete proteins and amino acids have screwed up their cognitive ability, plus they take supplements by the handfull. Vegan is a relativity new religion, with very little human history to support their wild claims. Vegans will point to few healthy Asian and Island cultures that consume a mainly plant based diet, but they leave out the fact that these cultures supplement their diet with wild fish and seafood. Yet through history there has been many documented healthy cultures that consume 100% animal products.

. I eat a ton of animal protein but I cannot support current factory meat farms. Forcing animals who where designed to eat grass, to eat GMO grains, screws up their Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio, resulting in a highly inflammatory food. I personally only consume pasture raised/pasture finished animal products, which are high in anti-inflammatory omega 3. I also consume a lot of wild salmon and sardines. Pasture raised animals is as green as it gets. The animals eat the grass they where designed for, while naturally fertilizing the pastures, producing even more grass to eat. Circle of life, and sustainable.

Again, just my opinion.

David

See, I am not going to pretend I am aware of this being fact and I am even willing to believe it is true but you have already provided and alternative to GMO fed livestock. The problem with your statement is you have an outdated definition of "as green as it gets". The modern lunatic progressive demands we all convert to plant-based protein and try to sell us on "beyond meat" because the world is going to end in 12 years.

Am I the only one who hears these people whine and moan about the world ending in 12 years?

People elected this sloth dropped on it's head as a baby level of retardation. LOOK AT IT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5GVXmHgy1A

This is our World War II if we don't do anything now. And I bet you, if we turned her into bacon, she would probably be spicy. Latino food usually has some nice spice.

#1 Opel

With your O.P. title...

You just made the "GREELIGHT L.I.S.T."

NEVER LEAVE YOUR DRINK @THE BAR when going to the bathroom....
Never leave your water on a restaurant table ( unless you have a very trusted friend who watches it) when you go to the bathroom....
Never drink water from a pitcher from your fridge if you were on vacation, empty it when returning and refill it with fresh
water...
Always carry two knives and a pepper spray where ever you go...A.L.W.A.Y.S....
BE AWARE OF ANYBODY BEHIND YOU, OLD, YOUNG, ANY RACE, GIMPS, SPEDS, TEENAGERS, UGLY, PRETTY, WHEELCHAIRS, CRUTCHES, ....ANYFREAKINBODYATALL

Also - just for the ssg watching - the op title wasnt so much what I was thinking as it was guessing what exact words came out of trumps mouth when he made this decision...

Brewha..!!

Sorry Opel - now what were you saying about BBW?

Why do conservatives hate Michelle Obama? What did she do wrong?

I don't know why anyone would hate her... I think she was an ignorant tool... She thought her school lunch programs would promote nutrition and they clearly don't...

You can't replace "bad" processed and preserved food with "good" processed and preserved food...

The answer to healthy breakfasts and lunches for kids is whole cuts of meat like beef steaks and chicken breasts and saltwater fish fillets combined with vegetables grown on site... It really is that simple...

But nobody wants to do that... They wanna develop new sources of minimal protein like sunflower seed butter so they can make money...

Again, I don't know... I wouldn't say she's done "nothing wrong" but I see no reason to hate her...

so that's one vote for "cuz I'm batsh*t crazy"...

Like Moscow Mitch??

I believe you, when you say you cannot remember...