Chicago school bans home lunches

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011 ... lic-school

They think it make kids eat healthy than unhealthy.

That's asinine.

And I saw the photograph of the school lunches. It hardly looked healthy.

The food in the picture looked gross.

I remember a substitute teacher how I somehow got talking about healthy food with her during the morning break and she said "can I see your lunch bag?". I was actually going out for lunch with my mom that day.

I'm glad my school doesn't do this, the school food is disgusting! I have heard staff members tell other staff members to not eat the food from the cafeteria because it's not all that good.

It looks like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is their nutritionist!

Okay, now seriously, if they don't eat it, their nutrition is going to be worse than if they ate the hot cheetos and washed it down with a 20oz. coke. It looks like an anchor baby school so I'm not surprised both the parents and kids both need to be ordered around for their own good, but until the school can get control of all food they have access to, I think their effort is a lost cause.

In Britain it's frequently the case that parents' packed lunches are much better for the kids than some of the horrid stuff that gets served up at school dinners.

It really gets parents backs up too when they are told that they're not allowed to put X in with their lunch. People just do it anyway.

And as for hospital food and repressive authoritarianism, see here (http://hospitalnotes.blogspot.com/).

I've heard of US employers getting rid of junk food and sodas in the vending machines and even offering workstations with a low power treadmill on a voluntary basis. From my personal experience, not having chocolate and caffeine handy is good for waistlines but bad for productivity in intellectual jobs.

The only time I can see banning someone from bringing their own food is if someone has a very sensitive allergy to something. For example, if I walked through a grocery store blindfolded, I'd know it when I walked by the bin of peanuts but it wouldn't hurt me. However, there are some people that can't even enter a grocery store or go on a commercial plane because exposure to peanuts would kill them. If someone goes to a school or workplace where someone has that severe of an allergy to something, THEN it makes sense to ban that particular item or substance.

I know what you mean about hospitals cutting food costs. In 2006 I was at a county subsided private hospital for depression and I didn't know it was possible to make western food that terrible and still be technically edible. At first, getting marked of as eating 100% of the meal because I ate the meat (at least I hope it was meat) out of whatever it was supposed to be worked fine because I had only been eating about half a meal a day when I was at home. But once the meds started kicking in and my appetite started returning, that didn't work so well and I started drinking more and more hot tea to stay full, but that was a little bit difficult at times because there was a diabetic patient there too so access to sugar was restricted. I didn't race out and get anything special to eat after I was discharged, but 3 days later my brother had his birthday party and pizza never tasted so good! Crappy food in the hospital is no way to raise someone's morale to help them recover from whatever they are suffering from.

Back in the public school system that I attend, many of the foods that they served were greasy and salty and thus, NOT healthlier than the sandwiches that the students brought from home. And the school lunches weren't in their best quality. Banning students from bringing their own lunches (they could be healthy, vegetarian, and or gluten-free) and penalizing them from doing this is totally absurd.

What also sickens me just like this story does is some woman suing McDonald's to push them to remove toys from Happy Meals and serve healthier kids meals. Banning toys won't stop kids from eating fast food (kids eat Dominos Pizza, which doesn't serve toys).

So tell me what's next governments! Gonna ban Dunkin Donuts, sodas, smoothies, and mini-fast food restaurants from college campuses?????

Apparently, the idea is to encourage good future dietary habits by forcing students to experience the consequences of continually eating the greasiest, most unhealthful food for miles. The closest cafeteria food comes to offering healthy choices is occasionally giving the option to eat half of an apple or banana that's been unnaturally preserved by toxic chemicals for about seven years. They could probably be sued if they used the term "fit for human consumption" to describe any of it.

They probably already have those targetted next, and the thing is they can argue this is all okay for them to do because Government is footing the costs of people's healthcare (which they really wanted to begin with).

This is why Obamacare needs to be tossed out.

http://www.google.com/url?url=http://ww ... seZoII1Njg

It's all about a nanny state and parents that do not want take responsibility for their actions. I watched the interview with the lady and she told the reporter is "too hard to say no, to her kids because the commercials brain wash her kids into wanting the toys. "

The majority of the food kids eat is going to be consumed at home. What's next having the government come in peoples houses to make sure they eat right.

Inuyasha is also right about government take over of heathcare and Obamacare needs to be tossed out.

Cant we just say its because of the allergy risks that come from school lunches from home. So we make sure that school lunches at school dont contain peanuts or other allergy inducing food that could kill a kid.

I read this somewhere else. I think it is a bunch of BS! I mean really, school food is disgusting.

The school is looking to create a monopoly - buy their food or you don't eat.
Shameful but not surprising.
The dollar is king of America.

I saw another article that said that more than half the food served in those special super healthy lunches ends up in the trash.

Hmm, I thought that it was the parent's job to teach their children how to eat healthy... nah what am I thinking

Anyways, even though I had a horrible diet in school, their tactic of eat this or starve would not have worked for me. Even I knew school lunches were garbage that should be avoided at all costs.

I think a better approach would be to teach the children more about the nutritional value of foods and how they affect your body in a class. However, they think "might makes right" and that they can dictate what the children have to eat, even if it violates the children's rights.

When I was in elementary school, having some junk food in your lunch was allowed but you had to eat your healthy food first. In high school I was so active I could chronically eat like crap and keep a six pack.