More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules

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Source: Washington Post

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama’s signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches. And on her birthday.

On Friday, USDA Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps proposed new rules for the Food and Nutrition Service that would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at lunch and breakfasts while giving them license to sell more pizza, burgers and fries to students. The agency is responsible for administering nutritional programs that feed nearly 30 million students at 99,000 schools.

Lipps said the changes will help address what he described as unintended consequences of the regulations put in place during the Obama administration. For example, when schools were trying to implement innovative solutions such as grab-and-go breakfast off a cart or meals in the classroom, they were forced to give kids two bananas to meet minimum federal requirements.

But Colin Schwartz, deputy director of legislative affairs for Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that the proposed rules, if finalized, “would create a huge loophole in school nutrition guidelines, paving the way for children to choose pizza, burgers, french fries and other foods high in calories, saturated fat or sodium in place of balanced school meals every day.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/17/usda-proposes-changing-school-menus-allow-more-fries-pizza-fewer-vegetables-fruits-reversing-michelle-obama-effort/

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Let them eat junk.

[iluvtennis]

1. trump only doing this to overturn what Obama out in place. He wants to ERASE Obama. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Is ketchup a vegetable again?

[dhol82]

3. Yeah, there ya go!

Ain’t the republicans awesome?

[progree]

10. And pizza sauce too, I bet, as long as it is tomato based and is 10% or more tomatos

[groundloop]

15. I bet you didn't know that mac-n-cheese is a vegetable, did you?

[Mc Mike]

4. Helping mother russia with every move he makes. Traitor.

[SunSeeker]

5. Be best!

[LuvLoogie]

6. Long after that fucker's corpse is done polluting the Earth,

the Obama's will be working to make this a better place.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. making our kids more obese .

[C Moon]

14. Misery loves company (Trump)

[Guilded Lilly]

8. Can a person be more vindictively ignorant to the core? ...nah.

[groundloop]

16. Nope..... tRump has that market sewn up.

I suppose President Obama shouldn't have made fun of poor little donnie at that mean, nasty Correspondent's Dinner.

[PandoraAwakened]

22. Which probably had vegetables on his plate that he choked on. n/t

[SeattleVet]

9. This is SO wrong!

Next thing you know, tRump will have them putting freaking pineapple on the pizza so that they could count it toward their daily allowance of fruit!

Pineapple on pizza is NOT fruit - it's an abomination!

[Grokenstein]

13. Now I'ma get a Hawaiian this weekend

...if that's an abomination, I guess I'm abominable.

[3auld6phart]

21. Indeed

Agreed,an abomination. Along with parsnips.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Fat ass Trump feels threaten by anyone healthier than him.

[Grokenstein]

12. Trumpmerika's Values

Mom, baseball and apple pie have been replaced by daughter's butt, Twitter and ketchup packets.

Malnutrition makes a citizenry more...pliable. And like every other thing Republicans have done to kneecap public education, they've been working tirelessly at it for decades.

[PandoraAwakened]

23. Well said.

[Polybius]

17. There is only one age group that could possibly support him on this

5-16 year olds, and they can't vote.

[DenverJared]

18. That petty, jealous and vindictive jerk

is out to undo everything President Obama accomplished; even the good things that everyone can support.

[yaesu]

19. Our school lunches compared to those overseas

[czarjak]

20. Job #1...

Hurting the right people?

[Bayard]

24. He wants kids to grow up to look like him

Bring on those hamberders! With a side of twinkies.

[mahina]

26. How does trump get money out of this?

Donations to a pac from the industrial food companies?

Another poster added Where do er invade next by Michael Moore. Other countries school lunches are heavier and tastier and don’t train people to eat slop.

[underpants]

28. This one to me just feels like spite. Yesterday was Michelle Obama's Birthday too

So....yeah

[mahina]

29. Jesus, what a mutt.

[MissB]

33. I can assure you

She is going to have an amazing birthday celebration.

[tavernier]

35. Healthy food costs more than crap.

Serve crap, pocket the change.

[Iliyah]

27. Outrageous health cost insurance to boot . . . .

[Newest Reality]

30. Yes...

And, if you put poor eating together with no health insurance, in the long-run, we "actual" taxpayers get the bill and oh, the profits to be made from long-term chronic illness. It will contribute to some sound investments for some and some health food for the healthcare industry.

See! It makes perfect sense and its win/win for...??????

[DesertRat]

31. K&R

[MFM008]

32. Now kids

Get to eat like Fat Napolean.

[Hekate]

34. Tell me again how obesity is a personal choice, especially in children