Thread: This burns my bacon! More nanny state bureaucratic nonesense.

I dont know about that. Even the libtards at the huffington post reported about it.

https://news.google.com/news/more?hl...ed=0CCsQqgIwAA

Originally Posted by Crotalus

I don't know why I am surprised, I just spent 30 minutes looking for this story on CNN, ABC, and CBS. I'm not saying it's not there, but if it is, it's damned hard to find.

Fox is the only one that keeps and eye on the government for us.

So you think it's more likely that a school lunch lady saw that a kid had a turkey sandwich, apple juice, banana and chips packed for lunch, and decided to say "No, you have to have chicken nuggets instead," rather than a 4 year old kid making a fuss because everybody else is getting chicken nuggets and she wants some, but has her turkey sandwich her mom packed her unless she can convince the lunch lady to give her chicken nuggets too?

Clearly, this kid's mom wants her kid to eat healthy, she took the effort to pack her lunch, after all. That the kid only ate three chicken nuggets isn't the school's fault. They didn't take away her packed lunch and they didn't make her not eat the veggies that were on the school lunch either. Heck, in the original story, the mom admits that she doesn't pack her daughter veggies because she won't eat em. I'm sure she's trying, and she's probably doing about as well in teaching her kid to eat right as anybody else would do in her situation. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a preschooler, most of whom would rather eat something off the floor than anything resembling a vegetable and who would murder their siblings and the family cat if they though it would get them chicken nuggets. It's ridiculous to think the school is overreaching in their authority by giving the kid the school lunch on top of the lunch she brought from home. And it's ridiculous to blame the school for the kid's bad food choices when the only thing the school can do is offer supplements. Either the parents are to blame for not teaching their kids to make good choices, or the kid's to blame for being too immature to make the choices they know they should make.

As for nobody else picking up this story, it's because it's not a very compelling story. I mean seriously, OMG! BREAKING! THREE YEAR OLD KID EATS CHICKEN NUGGETS INSTEAD OF HOME PACKED LUNCH!

You call this evidence of a nanny-state? I mean, if the story were at all like what Catrentshaving has reported happening to him, you'd have a point, but this? They gave the kid more food, who made perhaps the worst possible choice available to her with the plethora of food she had, and sent a $1.25 bill and a form letter home to mom. Mom takes offense to what she sees as an insult to her lunch-packing abilities and having to pay a buck twenty five for her kid eating three chicken nuggets. We have to take her word for it that her kid didn't choose to get the chicken nugget lunch in the first place. You think this deserves to be a national story? Heck, it doesn't even need to be a local story.

Mom didn't put a vegetable in her kid's lunch because the kid will not eat vegetables outside of Mom's presence.

I know we disagree on the role of government, but we have to agree that not even the nanny state can legislate a kid to like vegetables.






ps how delicious is the irony that the child's lunch is taken away according to health guidelines and replaced by, wait for it, chicken nuggets.
I am humming the Star-Spangled Banner as I type this.

Originally Posted by Jimbo7

ps how delicious is the irony that the child's lunch is taken away according to health guidelines and replaced by, wait for it, chicken nuggets.

That was indeed a very funny case of irony.

Originally Posted by HNSB

Apparently if I post here, hoglahoo will thank it.

sorry, I had to leave the thread at noon EST for chicken nugget lunch

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

sorry, I had to leave the thread at noon EST for chicken nugget lunch

We used to call that one "Big Lunch".

James.

It isn't on the menu, but if you ask for it and keep your voice down, and if you are living right, you can still get the 50-piece mcnugget oilfest-in-a-box at good ole Mickey-D's

I read this article not long ago and this seems an appropriate time to share:
How did we survive?

Originally Posted by RayCover

The nanny state bureaucrats have way overstepped their bounds now. To tell a parent what they can and can't pack in their kids lunch goes way too far. I read this article and was just totally disgusted at the arrogance of these people.

To top it off the kid's turkey and cheese sandwich was taken and replaced by deep fried chicken parts nuggets in the name of better nutrition. What short bus did they pull this retard nutritionist off of anyway?

Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced With Nuggets | Fox News

If you read between the lines here you can see one more place where the public education system is undermining the authority of parents in order to indoctrinate kids by making the kids think mom and dad don't know what they are doing. This kind of nonsense is exactly why my two went to private school in their elementary years.

I guess I need to revisit the original foxnews article and learn more but
in some states "health care" including nutrition is regulated and licensed.

I would check and then litigate...

Was this person a certified nutritionist or just someone tasked with the job.
Worse was this person self appointed.

I would also establish some bounds based on medical and
religious requirements that the school must comply with.
Wheat, gluten, peanut, nuts.... allergies.

Since they serve and prepare food they also need to have
their health department sanitation inspection on file and posted.

Note that an inspector must open the lunch and inspect the
sandwich and fixing. However the contents of the lunch box
are not known to be sanitary so fresh gloves must be used
as each food item is "touched" and inspected. This is something
that upsets me when I fly. The TSA agent can inspect my
personal kit with grey and dirty rubber gloves. My tooth brush
etc. etc...

Are there no workhouses? Why are they in school in the 1st place? Let them work for their lunches!(:-(
Let them learn there's no 'free lunch' in this country... Except for the rich or big business.