Not the governments responsibility to mandate what our kids can and cant eat at school. Thats should be up to the schools/locals officials and parents. Different states have different culinary tastes and trying mandate what kids eat is overbearing and an abuse of federal authority, especially since michelle obama has zero fucking authority to do anything.
Its one thing to encourage parents to start taking an interest in their kids health and eating habits, but trying to ram it down their throats is only going to make kids go the other way and want nothing to do with it.
I believe many of the schools that tried this reported that most of their kids simoky started bringing their own lunches with even shittier food because they refuse to eat the shit menu obama is trying to force on the entire country, and that they've lost more dollars in sales than they gained in federal aid, so they said fuck it and went back to their old system and gave up the fed dollars.
Neither Michelle or President Obama are mandating anything. It happens to be the law, albeit one which was signed into law by the President after it passed Congress by a clear majority.
In 2010 the U.S. Congress passed S. 3307 (111th): Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Number: House Vote #603 [primary source: house.gov] Date: Dec 02, 2010 (111th Congress) Result: Passed
If you are interested in seeing how your elected officials voted in 2010, check out this website:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h603This legislation passed by a clear majority, however few Republicans supported it as might be expected since there is a hefty price tag on the implementation of the law.
I agree that it should be the parents responsibility to insure their children get a healthy diet. Unfortunately, this doesn't always happen. Fat and unhealthy kids from middle class and wealthy families aren't likely to be a burden on society since their families probably have health insurance. Kids living in poverty or near poverty, automatically become everyone's problem, since it is all the rest of us who pay to cover their medical costs. I suppose we could just wash our hands of all this caregiving and just let folks die. The world is overpopulated anyway, right?