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Watch what you give your children for lunch, the Federal "Lunch Bag Nazis" may get you!!!!
Remember the Uncle Sam knows how to run your life and the lives of your family members better then you do. Don't send your child off to school with a sack lunch that hasn't been approved by the Federal "Lunch Bag Nazis". I am just joking, and I think the Federal Lunch Bag Police should take their silly lunch rules and shove them. Critics: Government meddled in school-lunch controversy by Emery Dalesio - Feb. 16, 2012 10:59 PM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. - It was a tale of government meddling that outraged radio talk-show hosts and a pair of Congress members: A 4-year-old was forced to eat a state-dictated cafeteria lunch of chicken nuggets instead of her packed lunch. Now school officials are blaming a teacher's error in making sure the child had a nutritious meal. The incident happened two weeks ago at an elementary school in Raeford, near Fort Bragg. The girl's parents anonymously tipped off a Raleigh TV station and a conservative blogger after the girl brought home her packed lunch. Conservatives who see it as yet another example of government overreach leaped on the story, and it reached a pair of North Carolina U.S. representatives, Republican Renee Ellmers and Democrat Larry Kissell. They wrote a letter asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to investigate. "The content of a school lunch provided to a child by their parents should be governed only by the child's parents, not another government bureaucrat," they wrote in the letter. "This is also kind of adding on to a lot of things that we're seeing coming out of the Obama Administration" that conservatives oppose, Ellmers' press secretary Tom Doheny said. A Kissell spokesman did not respond to requests for comment. The cafeteria details are true, but rather than an example of government "lunch-bag police" overruling a family, it's an embarrassing lapse by a teacher, Hoke County Schools Assistant Superintendent Bob Barnes said Thursday. The girl's teacher should have handed the child a carton of milk to round out the turkey-and-cheese sandwich and banana she brought from home. Instead, the teacher erred by telling the tyke to get a cafeteria lunch, Barnes said. The North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten is a state-run program to help 4-year-olds at risk of starting school lagging behind their peers. The program is required to supply a healthful lunch. The U.S. Agriculture Department had no involvement in the case, USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe said. |