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

Originally Posted by Kantian Pragmatist

No, the requirement is for protein, so beans or peanut butter would suffice. As for dairy, they can give the child dairy, like milk or cheese, but they can't force the kid to eat it. It's a bad idea to restrict a child's diet to pure vegan anyway. They need the calcium and magnesium and the unique proteins and sugars in milk and cheeses.

I don't know about the U.S. but I'm not allowed to send my kids to school with peanut butter and have actually had a soy butter sandwich taken away from my son at school even though he told the teacher it was soy and not peanut butter. My ex wife was a vegetarian and even a raw foodist for a period and you can get all the nutritional requirements you need without meat or dairy. From what was stated in that article there was nothing missing from that childs lunch and it sounds very similar to the lunch I send to school everyday. As a parent I would be upset as well if my child was provided a lunch without my consent.