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Readers Respond: School Lunches, Taxes and Civics
By not in system - AOL News(April 15) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback we received to op-eds published on AOL News over the past week. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. What's Wrong With School Lunches? by Laura Vanderkam I just wanted to say "thank you" for your article. People love to complain about school lunches, but they don't know anything about the regulations we have to keep. I have worked in school food service for about eight years. Every year the regulations and requirements increase. It is sometimes hard to understand, so the people who don't deal with it on a ...
SC Lt. Gov. Compares Poor to 'Stray Animals'
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 25) – Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer – a Republican candidate to replace Mark Sanford as governor of South Carolina – is under fire for remarks he made about people who get government aid. "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed," he told an audience in the town of Fountain Inn on Friday. "You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that." Bauer later told ...
Meat for Public Schools Often Rejected by Fast Food Chains
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAn investigation finds the federal government provides schools with meat that many fast food restaurants would reject. McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box and other chains are more rigorous than the Department of Agriculture when it comes to checking beef and chicken for bacteria and dangerous pathogens, USA Today reported. The paper studied records from the past three years and found fast food restaurants test ground beef up to 10 times more often than the USDA tests meat for the National School Lunch Program. The USDA has supplied schools with old chicken, called "spent hens," that ...
Meat Standards: Fast Food Beats Schools
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- If you have kids, here's something to mull the next time you're deciding whether to pack them a lunch: USA Today has a report out Wednesday morning showing that fast-food standards for meat exceed those for public schools. McDonald's and Burger King, it turns out, test ground beef for bacteria "five to 10 times more often" than the U.S. Department of Agriculture tests beef headed for school cafeterias. Schools also receive chicken from "old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food." The story makes for some cringe-inducing reading, in the grand tradition of ...
School Lunch: It's Not Rocket Science
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyThis morning I sent my daughter off to school with a smoked turkey and Monterey jack sandwich (on a ciabatta roll), two plums from the farmers market, a handful of cashews, and a small square of chocolate (she gets a carton of skim milk at school). Like millions of other parents who are sending kids back to school this week and next, I now face the challenge of packing my two children a nutritious and enticing lunch five days a week, more or less, for the next nine months -- a subject I'll be talking about at 1 p.m. today on WAMU's "Kojo Nnamdi Show." It's enough to make any busy working ...
Obama Sisters School Lunch Poster Will Stay Up
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThose posters in Washington's Union Station that refer to the Obama daughters and urge Congress to get behind healthy school lunches are staying up, despite calls from White House lawyers to take them down. That's what I was told by the president of the group that put them there, Neal Barnard, who runs the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used the poster campaign to reissue a call to the media to protect the privacy of the Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha. "Without getting into the specifics, we've been very clear, I think, from even ...
Malia and Sasha Obama Spotlighted by School-Lunch Ad Campaign
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAdvertisers have tried to use the Obama family to sell everything from dolls to sweaters, and now a group is hoping that an ad singling out the president's 8- and 11-year-old daughters will sway the debate on the school lunch program. ...
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