With everything else that’s been going on this week, I haven’t had a chance to rant about this particular piece of totalitarian nanny-state bull$#!+ yet. The other day Matt Boyle had this story (emphasis mine):
A North Carolina elementary school forced a preschool student to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets for lunch on Jan. 30 after officials reportedly determined that her homemade meal wasn’t up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s standards for healthfulness, according to a report from the Carolina Journal.
The newspaper reported that the four-year-old girl brought a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice in her packed lunch from home. That meal didn’t meet with approval from the government agent who was on site inspecting kids’ lunches that day.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Child Development and Early Education requires that all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs must meet USDA guidelines. Meals, the guidelines say, must include one serving each of meat, milk and grain and two servings of fruit or vegetables. Those guidelines apply to home-packed lunches as well as cafeteria meals.
So the kid’s lunch actually met the guidelines. It was healthier than the one these dumb bureaucrats pushed on her.
More importantly: It’s none of the government’s business what your kid eats.
Why the hell is a government agent going through kids’ school lunches? Why are we putting up with this? The same people who scream “keep your laws off my body” are just fine with putting their damn hands in other people’s lunchboxes. They’ll fight to allow you to kill your kids before birth, but if you decide to keep them, you have to raise them as you’re told.
It’s none of my business if Michelle Obama wants to eat at Shake Shack and Burger King and wherever else she wants, whenever she wants. But she’s not about to return the courtesy. She and the rest of these food fascists are just saving us from ourselves. They know best. And if you’ve got a problem with that, they really don’t want to hear it.
Obama 2012: Shut. Up.
P.S. Guess whose fault it is? The kid’s, of course. FayObserver.com:
School and state officials say a misunderstanding resulted in a West Hoke Elementary School preschooler’s homemade lunch being replaced with chicken nuggets.
An agent from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Child Development and Early Education was at the school Jan. 30 assessing the pre-kindergarten program, said Bob Barnes, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for Hoke County schools.
The agent examined the lunches for the six students in the class and believed one did not meet nutritional requirements spelled out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Barnes said…
The girl thought she had to go through the lunch line for a new meal, Barnes said.
Which doesn’t address the real question: Why was a DHHS agent pawing through kids’ lunches?
Here’s the topper:
“We are not the lunch bag police,” Barnes said. “We would never put a child in any type of embarrassing situation. But we are responsible to see that every child gets a nutritious meal.”
Three things:
- That sure sounds like the lunch bag police to me.
- No, actually, you’re not responsible for what the kids eat. Nor is the DHHS or any other branch of the government. Their parents are. And didn’t you just get done denying what you just admitted?
- Mind your own business.