Governments that poke their nose into people’s daily life are extremely annoying. It is a Governments job to provide people with the freedoms and resources required for living a comfortable life. The day they impose regulations that limit our basic freedoms, is the day they have gone too far.
Apparently, in some parts of the Western world, that day has well and truly arrived:
The elementary school in Raeford, North Carolina, decided the four-year-old’s lunch — which consisted of a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice — did not meet nutritional standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Why? Because it did not contain a vegetable.
The USDA guidelines say lunches, even those brought from home, must consist of one serving each of meat, milk, and grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables. Those guidelines — introduced last month as “historic improvements” by the federal government — spring from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of her Let’s Move! Campaign and signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow for the Beverly LaHaye Institute at Concerned Women for America, sees the incident at the North Carolina school as historic in another sense. She says it is just another way government intrudes on the rights of parents.
“It’s another way that the government says it knows best, another way to waste taxpayer dollars, quite frankly, and to really irritate parents,” Crouse tells OneNewsNow.
The mother of the young girl, in an interview with Carolina Journal, says what angered her the most was the message her daughter received. “…Number one, don’t tell my die I’m not packing her lunch box properly,” she stated. “I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats.” The child, she reported, does not like vegetables; so the mom packs fruit instead.
Why do Governments resort to strict regulations and negative tactics to enforce standards which can be met without limiting freedoms and isolating people?
Tags: Beverly LaHaye Institute, Carolina Journal, Concerned Women for America, Dr. Janice Crouse, Education, Education Policy, Elementary school, Fruit, Let's Move!, Lunch, Michelle Obama, North Carolina, Nutrition, Parenting, Political Correctness, President Barack Obama, Raeford, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA
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February 17, 2012 at 6:00 pm |
Seems to me that governments like intervene in order to curtail people’s individual freedoms but when and where they REALLY need to intervene to protect those who are vulnerable…..bopkis!
February 21, 2012 at 12:58 am |
Well said John!
February 18, 2012 at 3:06 am |
My daughter’s lunch has been sent home on numerous occassions, all because the school considered these things choking hazards;
carrot sticks – sliced thin
hot dog – cut in half
popcorn
trail mix (containing nuts)
This is ridiculous!
February 21, 2012 at 12:57 am |
Besides the nut product I sympathise with you. It is unfair and ultimately humiliating to have food sent back.