Thread: Food Police Invade North Carolina School

Most kids growing up in the 1950s and 1960s either took a “brown bag” lunch to school or brought one in a metallic square box. Those lunch boxes have become collector’s items. Some sell for more than a $1000. If there’s a working thermos, it’s even more. I saw kids bring a thermos to school and pull out steaming hot dogs from the airtight cylinder. When Salvatore LaMarca brought a McDonald’s hamburger to school in 1961, we all gathered around and oohed and awed over it like it had dropped to Earth from Sputnik.

Nobody told us what to eat or what not to eat. Our mothers wrapped our sandwiches in wax paper. Peanut and jelly was the most popular. Bologna, because it was cheap, was next. If you grew up in Pittsburgh, “chipped ham” was a perennial favorite. Outside of the Pittsburgh area, nobody knows how to “chip” ham. It’s so thin you can see through it. The best chipped ham was sold at Islay’s.

Now the food police are out in force. Kind’s lunches are being scrutinized like they are contraband. Schools have become prisons. It’s all about regulations . . . Lots and lots of regulations. Here’s how the story of the purloined lunch was reported by the Carolina Journal Online:

A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

Who do these people think they are? Is the day coming when food inspectors will be knocking on the doors to our homes demanding that we let them in to inspect our pantry and refrigerator? And then like in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, will the food police will gather up all the forbidden foods and burn them in our front lawn?

The schools have already banned certain reading materials for kids, censored critiques of favorite state-sanctioned belief systems, and filled textbooks with claims that homosexuality is perfectly acceptable as a sexual lifestyle choice. Is our food next?

If some bureaucrat digs deep into the Obamacare legislation, I’m sure he or she will be able to find something that will link the new regulations with what we eat.

Here’s the kicker. “The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a ‘healthy lunch’ would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.”

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State Inspectors Searching Children’s Lunch Boxes: “This Isn’t China, Is It?”
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Conservative Byte

A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact, all of the students in the NC Pre-K program classroom at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford had to accept a school lunch in addition to their lunches brought from home.

NC Pre-K (before this year known as More at Four) is a state-funded education program designed to “enhance school readiness” for four year-olds.

The mother, who doesn’t wish to be identified at this time, says she made her daughter a lunch that contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips. A state inspector assessing the pre-K program at the school said the girl also needed a vegetable, so the inspector ordered a full school lunch tray for her. While the four-year-old was still allowed to eat her home lunch, the girl was forced to take a helping of chicken nuggets, milk, a fruit and a vegetable to supplement her sack lunch.

The mother says the girl was so intimidated by the inspection process that she was too scared to eat all of her homemade lunch. The girl ate only the chicken nuggets provided to her by the school, so she still didn’t eat a vegetable.

The mother says her daughter doesn’t like vegetables and – like most four year olds – will only eat them at home under close supervision.

http://conservativebyte.com/2012/02/...t-china-is-it/



Now again If I May Ask...just who is running the INSANE ASYLUM???????

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Conservative Byte

A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a report by the Carolina Journal.

The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a state employee who was inspecting lunch boxes decided that her packed lunch — which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips — “did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines,” the Journal reports.

The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA guidelines.

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The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, now isn't that special!!!!!