Led by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, federal lawmakers are considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and cafeteria lines.
While I’m all for kids eating healthy foods I’m convinced our federal government should not be interfering with what our local schools do when it comes to serving our children food. It should be left up to parents and school officials at the local level.
The feds haven’t exactly done a great job when it comes to micro-managing our schools (or anything else) and it always concerns me when they try to force their ways on us. Maybe Venezuelans want that type of government with Chavez, but we need to remain as free as we can, for as long as we can.
Organizations like Better School Food mean well, but I cringe when our governments, especially our federal government, get involved in discussions like this. We moms and dads are having our lives and families interfered with by well-intentioned do-gooders that are steering our country further down the path to socialism.
The video below was put together by the Better School Food organization and outlines their objectives. All worthy goals and objectives (except for the odd insertion of eliminating food company commercials they don’t like), that should be shared with kids and parents everywhere. Our schools should add healthy food to their offering. And this should be done at the local level not the federal level. Of course, now we’re into the discussion of how our public schools are centrally managed… and we’ll save that discussion for another day.
[youtube width=”425″ height=”355″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRyw0lXuMlg[/youtube]
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