If Michelle Obama wanted kids to get canned vegetables, the Republicans would insist on fresh. It’s just the way they roll, the assholes:
Congressional Republicans are moving to waive a federal rule – championed by Bay Area lawmakers and first lady Michelle Obama – requiring that children who receive school lunches be served at least one helping of fresh fruit or vegetable each day, whether they want it or not.
Some schools say the rules are too rigid, and that children are rejecting the food and dumping millions of dollars of produce in the trash each day. On Tuesday, a House Appropriations subcommittee approved a GOP bill that would waive the rules for districts that are losing money on the federal school-lunch program, and a similar proposal is pending in the Senate.
[…] The first lady is fighting back, along with nutrition advocates, the produce industry and Democrats who say it might be hard to wean kids off junk fare, but that it’s important to keep trying.
[…] Some food advocates charged that Republicans are simply looking for a way to attack the first lady and taint one of the big legislative accomplishments of the Obama administration.
Canned vegetables are really bad for you and taste lousy. Fresh fruit is fine as long as it isn’t an apple or an orange day in and day out. Try grapes and peaches and nectarines, etc. “Attack and taint one of the big legislative accomplishments of the Obama administration.” Big like the ACA? Another piece of hot air legislation that Obama is famous for. Let’s also throw in Obama’s sneaky little wars in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Egypt, Thailand and Venezuela. All being fought by Obama’s CIA and NSA. This administration is real accomplished. In distorting the facts and keeping secrets.
I’d be curious why those school districts can’t get kids to eat fresh fruit. And I think any kid would eat glazed carrots. You can also hide veggies easily in a lot of dishes – meatloaf, lasagna, etc.
IMO every school should have a kitchen garden to engage kids in learning about food.