"State bans unhealthy food sales in schools; Rules apply to all except main line in the cafeteria" July 14, 2011|By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff
Sugary soft drinks, diet sodas, and artery-clogging food will be a thing of the past at Massachusetts public school snack shops, vending machines, and a la carte cafeteria lines under rules unanimously approved yesterday by state health regulators.
The nutrition standards adopted by the Public Health Council take effect in the 2012-2013 school year and are believed by advocates to be among the most comprehensive in the country....
As they FEED YOU SHIT, kids (keep reading).
The new rules reflect concerns about bulging waistlines among the state’s children and adolescents - roughly one-third are overweight or obese.
Faced with the troubling numbers, lawmakers directed the Department of Public Health last year to create a healthier menu for students. Low-fat snacks, whole-grain baked goods, fruits, and vegetables will now be prominently featured.
French fries, calorie-laden snacks, and white-bread sandwiches will be gone.
Portion sizes will also be carefully controlled, so a serving of juice, for instance, will be no more than four ounces.
I'm still hungry.
Gone will be sugary beverages, which have been identified as a prime culprit in the obesity epidemic....
Related: Boston’s high school students consuming fewer sugary drinks
"Researchers calculated the body mass index - a standard measurement of size.... There is growing debate about the accuracy of the standard method of calculating whether someone is overweight.... the system would put nearly half of NBA players in the overweight category"
Now I'm not saying sodas are good for you; however, you can LEARN SOMETHING from the LIE!
Derrikka Gillenwater, who graduated in June from West Roxbury’s Media Communications Technology High School said many students often gulp three or four flavored cartons of milk from the snack store next to the cafeteria instead of eating lunch, then complain later they were hungry or crashing from a sugar high.
“It will have to be the only option in the school for them to drink white milk,’’ said Gillenwater, who served on a youth advisory board for the Boston Public Schools lunch program. “They will have to suck it up and get over it.’’
I've got something you can suck.
In Lawrence, where nearly half of students are overweight or obese, authorities were surprised to learn several years ago that students chose their milk primarily based on how it was packaged, said Anne Marie Stronach, director of the school district’s nutrition services.
Meaning ADVERTISING and PROPAGANDA WORKS!
The district wanted to switch from whole to low-fat milk but worried consumption would plunge. Working with researchers from the University of Massachusetts, the district studied students’ choices and found most were selecting blue cartons, which contained the lowest-fat milk.
“It had nothing to do with the milk, but the color of the carton,’’ Stronach said....
The rules require schools to make sure students can get a free drink of water when they want it, but Smith said her agency recently discovered that not all schools had drinkable water available. Sometimes, that is because aging plumbing makes it unhealthy to drink from water fountains....
I think I'm going to puke.
The rules will not apply to food served in schools’ main cafeteria line because the federal government, which pays a substantial share of that cost, sets the standards for that fare. Earlier this year, the US Department of Agriculture proposed rules to make cafeteria food healthier by requiring more fruits and vegetables and less sodium and saturated fat....
Yeah, right, the US GOVERNMENT is going to make sure you get good food!
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Here is what the federal government is serving you:
FLASHBACK:
You may just want to skip lunch, kiddo!
Besides, it will help with the alleged obesity crisis.
Does the agenda-pushing brainwashing and mind manipulation ever stop?
"The Boston public schools ousted their longtime director of food and nutrition services yesterday after finding 280 cases of out-of-date food in 40 cafeterias amid allegations from a city councilor of systemic mismanagement and widespread waste....
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But you know what they are worried about?
"Schools couldn’t offer french fries.... healthier foods are often more expensive."
And just where is this bankrupt because of wars and Wall Street country going to get the money -- as if they cared about the health of the kids in the first place?
Is that what all the lies are for?
Don't eat too many links, readers. They might make you sick.
"’04 report warned of school food problems" by Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff / March 23, 2011
Officials in the Boston public schools learned as early as 2004 that their embattled food service system lacked adequate inventory controls, a problem highlighted in an internal report warning that the School Department needed substantial reforms.
And the kids ate all that bad food the whole time?
Those inventory problems took on grave significance yesterday as school officials admitted during a City Council hearing that students had recently been served eggs and ground beef that had been frozen as long as two years.
That's why the jokes about school food are not really jokes at all.
:-(
I would appreciate it if the agenda-pushing papers don't wave the kid card at us anytime soon, especially with radiated food on the way.
See: Super Sunday Spread
If the government bought and fed poisoned seafood to the military fighting its wars, what makes you think they wouldn't do it to the future warriors?
Then they can turn them over to the pharmaceutical$ for care.
Facing a scathing critique of the department’s food services, Superintendent Carol R. Johnson and other top school officials acknowledged significant problems with inventory and menus, but defended the quality of the meals and highlighted strides made by the food service in recent years.
That BEGS the QUESTION of WHAT the KIDS WERE EATING BEFORE!!!!
And defending the indefensible (think tastes like the food), you poor kids.
That's your lesson for the day, kiddo.
“Let’s be clear, the food we serve to our students is safe; all the food is safe,’’ said Johnson, who took over in 2007. “Our managers and kitchen staff would never serve anything that they would not serve to their own families.’’
And because your official government s***-spewer says it you must believe it!
That's lesson #2 (literally) for today: Government officials and authorities don't give a s*** about you -- and yet here the political system is piling on the teachers as the source of all society's ills (which is the way reading a Globe makes one feel).
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I'll bet Johnson doesn't have to worry about bad food.
"Expired food not confined to Hub; School leaders air their concerns, seek guidance from state" by Akilah Johnson and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff / April 1, 2011
State education officials acknowledged yesterday that the out-of-date food problem extends beyond Boston, with old food discovered in school cafeterias throughout Massachusetts.
This makes me want to cry.
More than 160 school leaders participated in a conference call with the state to voice concerns about problems in their districts. Superintendents and food service managers, many of them from the Greater Boston area, told of finding old food in freezers that had, at times, arrived from one of the state’s four warehouses already out of date. In one instance, pouches of tuna fish were delivered from one warehouse nearly two years after their expiration date.
You wanna open and smell this one?
The Education Department’s nutrition and health safety officials stressed that out-of-date food is generally safe to eat, but....
BUT NUTHIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for CARING ABOUT the KIDS, huh?
I notice the ELITE HAVE NO PROBLEMS putting out a good spread!
The food scare first erupted last month in Boston, when City Councilor John R. Connolly discovered out-of-date food in four school cafeterias. That prompted a wider review by school officials who discovered 280 cases of old food in cafeterias and an additional 3,000 cases of food worth $107,000 in a warehouse. The food was set aside and will be thrown out, with the exception of a small portion that was found to be sufficiently fresh.
“This is a systemic problem,’’ Revere’s superintendent, Paul Dakin, said after yesterday’s call. “It’s certainly not a [Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education] problem, and it’s certainly not the poor cafeteria manager who ends up accepting the goods that are delivered like this but who could get in trouble with parents and the media and have to explain their way out of it.’’
They don't have to explain anything; it's the OVERLORDS of STATE and FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that has some 'splainin' to do!
The state said it plans to conduct a full review of each of the four food storage warehouses, scrutinizing their paperwork and physically walking through the facilities to ensure that products are being sent out to schools before they expire....
And as they shuffle papers and give it an eyeball, on the menu for today....
President Peter Lewis of Wilmington Cold Storage said, “I think they are making more out of this than it really is.’’
Then you wouldn't mind having some school slop for lunch, 'eh?
The USDA’s school lunch program is a complex system that straddles bureaucracies on the federal, state, and local level. Much of the food comes from the federal government, but the program is administered by the state....
Who knew FEEDING OUR CHILDREN could be SO COMPLEX!
Most districts make monthly food orders through the state. The warehouses fill the orders, then trucking companies pick them up and distribute them.
Part of the problem, which Massachusetts officials say is also an issue in other states, appears to be an inconsistency in how food is labeled. Some manufacturers print expiration dates on their products, while others label their food with a best used by stamp; and still others offer a best if sold by date.
What a WEAK, LAME-ASS EXCUSE for FEEDING OUR KIDS S***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Complicating matters further, federal guidelines that say food actually maintains its nutritional value and flavor for several months beyond what the manufacturer has stamped on the package, meaning dates don’t necessarily need to be heeded....
This the same government that just adjusted radiation levels so they can lie about the fallout and poisoning from Japan?
That did the same with melamine in the milk?
Yesterday, the USDA did not return calls seeking comment.
Yeah, they only call you when they need you, agenda-pushers.
Duh!
Since the out-of-date food made headlines last month, Lewis of Wilmington Cold Storage said his company has been working diligently with the officials from the state and Boston to fix the problem....
They all follow the same script, don't they?
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I would brown-bag it if I could, kiddo.
Anything but a meal from the federal government:
"Federal grant to help put local food into N.E. schools, hospitals" by Lisa Rathke, Associated Press / February 18, 2011
MONTPELIER — Currently, it’s difficult to track how much local food schools and other institutions buy....
But demand has been rising in the last few years, not just from schools but from institutions such as colleges and hospitals as people seek fresh, healthy, safe foods, while supporting local farmers and reducing environmental impacts of transporting foods long distances.
“There’s just a lot of demand for the local product by the institutions and kind of a scrambling in the [agriculture] industry to meet that demand because so many of our farmers are not wholesaling any more, they’re selling direct to consumers,’’ said Kelly Erwin, coordinator of the Massachusetts Farm to School Project, which works to match farmers with schools.
“My fondest hope is it means we’ll have to put more acres into production,’’ she said.
Since it can’t keep up with the demand, the project will use the funding to hire someone to help.
Some funding will also go toward expanding production at the Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center in Greenfield, where some farmers are now flash freezing produce — berries and vegetables — to sell to schools, Erwin said.
Hey, what do you know?! I CAN GO to the school cafeteria and have a meal!
Discussions will also be set up with institutions and distributors around the region to identify obstacles to and opportunities for buying local products.
In Rhode Island, where all public schools are buying some local foods, Kids First, a nonprofit focused on improving the nutrition of children and families, will work with a vendor that supplies fresh produce to New England schools to create a model distribution system so that customers can select certain produce from certain farms....
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UPCHUCK:
"Miller fearful of tainted school meals" by ASSOCIATED PRESS | November 9, 2009
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
I'll pack one for you, kid.
Representative George Miller, a California Democrat, is worried about a recent outbreak that killed at least two people and sickened about two dozen others in 11 states.
The E. coli outbreak was linked to ground beef produced by Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y.
No schools were involved in the outbreak. But Miller said he is worried that tainted food might be purchased for school meal programs.
Miller asked the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to see whether there is adequate protection for school meals at the local, state, and federal level....
The GAO said in a September report that federal authorities had failed to tell schools about recalls of potentially tainted peanut products and canned vegetables.
A GAO investigation found that the Agriculture Department did not always make sure that states and schools were notified promptly about recalled food distributed through the federal school lunch and breakfast programs, which serve 30 million students....
This the same government that cares so much for the kids they are lying about the radiation spewing from Japan and contaminating the whole planet?
Same one that lied them into wars in which they are dying?
Just checking.
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It's dinner time here and all of a sudden I'm not that hungry.
Boston Globe spoiled my appetite again.
Maybe you ought to try the food truck outside, kids:
"Slow start to rollout of Boston food trucks" July 14, 2011|By Sara Brown and Cara Bayles, Globe Correspondents
Food truck aficionados, hold your appetites: at least nine of 15 new food trucks were not at their locations yesterday, the day the city of Boston said its new food truck initiative would roll out.
On Tuesday, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that “food trucks are ready to serve ‘wicked good food’ on Boston’s streets with 15 new permanent locations in several neighborhoods.’’ The announcement said the food trucks would rotate among locations in the Back Bay, South End, Fenway-Kenmore, and other neighborhoods starting yesterday.
Is it healthy food?
But nine of the vendors were not at their locations yesterday, according to a survey of the locations and interviews with the truck operators. Some blamed truck repairs and delays in getting licenses; others pointed to unforeseen problems....
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Update: Boston pediatrician to lead first lady’s Let’s Move! campaign
