School Lunch: Preschooler Told Homemade Turkey Sandwich Not Nutritious Enough, Given Nuggets Instead

[Nuclear Unicorn]

47. According to what I've read it's because the lunch lacked vegetables per HHS guidelines.

Personally, I think the school will issue a mea culpa and vow to refrain from such oversteps in the future and other schools, not wanting to make similar headlines, will follow suit.

As well they should; and that will be the end of it.

But if anyone argues that the action described in the article is a good and proper function of government I will be happy to argue against such notions. If something is required and is found to be lacking than either the requirement is enforced or it becomes meaningless. It's the enforcement that should make us cringe.

Yes, children *ought* to have vegetables but the idea that we would have food fascists inspecting and denying food *ought* to be abhorrent to a free people. Especially since those insisting they trample our rights are doing so for our own good. Such people NEVER grant assurances about when such intrusions will cease or what limits they would draw. They are implaccable in their self-assured righteousness and they are the worst tyrants.