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

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.

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.

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

Har, Har, Har, Har. And if they miss something they just make it up.

What part of the chicken is a nugget exactly? Apparently on Tuesday, I dodged the food police and got away with eating a chicharon sandwich on Cuban bread. Chicharon of course being straight up deep fried pig fat/skin. Yeah, it's not all that healthy but it sure is good. Hate to employ the slippery slope technique but this is probably just the beginning. Once we have "free" government funded health care it will get seriously out of hand. I can see rationing of alcohol and tobacco will just be outlawed (but wait who will pay for poor children's health care?). And we still have the stones to call ourselves Land of the Free!? Unbelievable!

That sounds delicious......

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

What part of the chicken is a nugget exactly? Apparently on Tuesday, I dodged the food police and got away with eating a chicharon sandwich on Cuban bread. Chicharon of course being straight up deep fried pig fat/skin.

let's just say for the sake of argument the kid manipulated the school to give her chicken nuggets, is'nt that the exact reason the school should not be making decisions about what the kid eats without the parents consent? Yeah, the kid is too immature to make her own lunch choices, that's the reason her mom did. The school shorted the parent/child relationship by allowing the kid to eat nuggets.
And if the kid ate the chicken nuggets instead of the healthier lunch her mom made her, doesnt that mean the whole premis doesn't work?

Originally Posted by Kantian Pragmatist

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.

It appears you also forgot to place some portion of blame on the school for inspecting the kid's lunch and then deciding they know what's best for the child, not the parents.

I'll blame the school nutritionist for allowing a pre-schooler to manipulate her into giving her the school lunch, or for thinking the lunch described didn't meet USDA standards. That's a problem of the school having inadequately trained nutritionists, not bad regulations. I see nothing at all wrong with school nutritionists being required to supplement packed lunches when those lunches don't meet minimum nutritional standards. You have a lot of rights when it comes to your kids, mal-nourishing or under-nourishing them are not among those rights.

Why not just supplement with what is missing from the packed lunch? If it has everything but a vegetable, give the kid a scoop of peas.