Grist Comment Feed en http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-02-GOP-ice-cream/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:59:40 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-02-GOP-ice-cream/1 For the kids living in poverty, the free breakfasts and lunches provided at school are often the only meals available. For anyone, especially a member of Congress, to mock these programs is just deplorable. Instead denouncing them, Congress needs to improve the quality of food provided. It is shameful that anyone goes hungry in the richest nation on Earth.

]]> For the kids living in poverty, the free breakfasts and lunches provided at school are often the only meals available. For anyone, especially a member of Congress, to mock these programs is just deplorable. Instead denouncing them, Congress needs to improve the quality of food provided. It is shameful that anyone goes hungry in the richest nation on Earth.

]]> http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-02-GOP-ice-cream/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:14:46 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-02-GOP-ice-cream/2 http://greeniusreport.blogspot.com/2008/06/fix-your-school-food-program-or-at.html). The problem is that nobody at the district level understands food; they just understand the quantified nutrients that are established as daily minimums and maximums by law (which is all anyone is concerned about; that, and not losing money). For example: in order to "balance" a person's meal, when he orders nachos, he receives an apple and milk to make the saturated fat and cholesterol of the nachos less of a proportion of his meal. Another numbers-(mis)guided health move: Pop Tarts have been replaced by whole wheat Pop Tarts! We'll have healthy kids in no time! ]]> http://greeniusreport.blogspot.com/2008/06/fix-your-school-food-program-or-at.html). The problem is that nobody at the district level understands food; they just understand the quantified nutrients that are established as daily minimums and maximums by law (which is all anyone is concerned about; that, and not losing money). For example: in order to "balance" a person's meal, when he orders nachos, he receives an apple and milk to make the saturated fat and cholesterol of the nachos less of a proportion of his meal. Another numbers-(mis)guided health move: Pop Tarts have been replaced by whole wheat Pop Tarts! We'll have healthy kids in no time! ]]>