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LAUSD: A RIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
Heres the feel-good story of the week:
according to the Los Angeles Times, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) throw away at least $100,000 worth of food every day, mostly fruits and vegetables theyre required to place on their trays by federally mandated lunchroom regulations championed by Michelle Obama and her ilk, I mean
yeah, I mean her ilk. And even the Times admits that $100,000 a day (or about 10% of LAUSDs total food spending) is probably a very conservative estimate.
Know what $100,000 a day adds up to over the course of a nine-month school year for the supposedly cash-strapped LAUSD? (OK, if youre a graduate of the LAUSD system, you can use a calculator.) Eighteen million dollars a year! And the national figures for Michelle Obamas Waste-A-Palooza? (No, not her far-flung vacations, I mean her food OCD thing). How does ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR wasted on food U.S. school kids throw in the trash every year grab you?
Great Scott Walker, thats almost as much as California is planning to throw in the trash every year for something else nobody wants or needs: the bullet train. You know, the one thats slower than air travel yet costs more, but is conveniently much less convenient? Yeah, that one! Gee, I wonder if the bullet train has a dining car that forces passengers to make healthy lunchtime eating choices.
This preposterous lunch charade only goes to prove the old adage: you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him eat broccoli. Its also clear that even though the Obamas can force us, under penalty of law (without even a hint of constitutional authority to do so, regardless of what John Roberts said) to purchase health care plans we dont want or need, even they cant make a kid eat gray, disgusting turkey burgers and apricots that taste like
well, like apricots.
Still, federal regulators believe they can make anything happen if they just keep talking about it long enough. You know, the way ObamaCare gets more popular the more President Obama talks about it? OK, bad example.
Despite vast expanses of evidence to the contrary, federal busybodies continue to insist that, quote, "
repeated exposure to fruits and vegetables eventually leads children to eat more of them." Spoken like someone who has never actually met a child, much less tried to teach, feed, or (God forbid) raise one.
In case youre wondering, heres how the uneaten food ritual works. In order for the school to qualify for some of the $11.6 billion dollars annually disbursed through Michelle Obamas Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010, kids going through the lunch line are requited to select three items, at least one of which must be a fruit or a vegetable. Which has one obvious benefit: theres at least the possibility that the 1-to-3 ratio might help (otherwise math-illiterate) LAUSD students grasp the concept of fractions.
ALL of it here
LAUSD: A Rind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
