Doo Gooders

The Doo Gooders (and I do mean doo) never learn, do they?  They are fixated on their correctness, that they know better than the rest of us.

More evidence is that this is hooey.  I've written before about how schools are now required to serve so-called "healthy" foods to students, thanks to the arrogant self-righteousness of Michelle Obama, members of Congress who passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act a few years ago, and the Depts of Education and HHS.  Anecdotal evidence, not to mention logic, suggests that kids are either not buying the choices or, if part of free lunches, are merely throwing the food in the trash.

Some of the defenders have actually said that, when the kids get hungry enough, they'll eat the new healthier food.  Great, just great.  Now we lead our kids to starvation so they will comply with more government dictates.

An article in this AM's newspaper details how poorly the healthy food program is going, after four or more years.  A number of school districts have documented that kids "are just throwing away" the foods they don't like.  And one district has noted that its famous cookies are no longer "legal" to sell, not even as fundraisers.  Its high school is losing tens of thousands of dollars of activities monies due to the lower sales.  Another district laments the waste of food, although I would also add the waste of taxpayer money that pays for the free breakfasts and lunches.  Whole grain bagels have been "a disaster," said one, adding that whole grain mac and cheese is also "a hard sell."  No kidding.

One of the state bureaucrats (See my blog of earlier this week!) said, "We need to give it [forcing kids to eat foods they don't want] some time."  Hmmm......  I guess four or five years isn't enough "time."

How about this?  Michelle Obama and all the other doo-gooders can give their kids what they want for breakfast and for lunch.  Let me give my kids what I know they'll eat--not throw away and waste.  Is that so hard?  It is for the arrogant elitists who know more than you and I know.

And we all know how easy it is to bribe the schools, especially when all they have to give up is their principles.