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OfflineShroomerette
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Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... * 1
    #14276173 - 04/12/11 01:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

This is ridiculous.  Yeah, school lunches should be healthier, but banning homemade lunches at school?  If I was a parent in this district I would be raising hell.

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Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight




Students who attend Chicago's Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food--or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to bring a homemade lunch to school, the Chicago Tribune reports.

"Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school," principal Elsa Carmona told the paper of the years-old policy. "It's about ... the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It's milk versus a Coke."

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For parents whose kids do not qualify for free or reduced price school lunches, the $2.25 daily cafeteria price can also tally more than a homemade lunch. "We don't spend anywhere close to that on my son's daily intake of a sandwich (lovingly cut into the shape of a Star Wars ship), Goldfish crackers and milk," Northwestern education policy professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach told the paper in an email. She told The Lookout parents at her child's public school would be upset if they tried to ban homemade lunches.

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While we haven't been able to track down another school that bans homemade lunches outright, many smaller food battles have been playing out in cafeterias across the country. As principals try to counter obesity in their schools, healthy intentions can come across as overreach, occasionally sparking parent and student anger.

Alabama parents protested a school's rule that barred students from bringing any drinks from home, as ice water was provided at lunch. East Syracuse, New York schools have outlawed cupcakes and other desserts. And schools around the country have kicked out chocolate milk and soda vending machines. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin even showed up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with dozens of cookies to express her disdain for a debate in the state about recommending teachers limit the number of times per month the sugary treats are eaten in classroom birthday celebrations.

Tucson, Arizona's Children's Success Academy allows home-packed lunches--but only if nothing in them contains white flour, refined sugar, or other "processed" foods, the Arizona Republic reported in a story last year. The school has no cafeteria, so some parents told the paper they struggled to find foods to pack that meet the restrictions. Many schools ban fast food or other take-out meals.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110411/us_yblog_thelookout/chicago-school-bans-homemade-lunches-the-latest-in-national-food-fight


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276179 - 04/12/11 01:27 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276184 - 04/12/11 01:29 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Actually, I just watched Food, Inc. and...I get where the school is coming from, but at the same time those school meals are probably pretty fucked up as well.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Synesthetic] * 7
    #14276213 - 04/12/11 01:36 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah I see why, but the school meals can't be so awesome that they're better than anything the kids could possibly bring from home.  And it's not like the school meals are free...what if the parents want to pack healthy leftovers from supper last night?  Nope, they can't, they have to pay money for the kid to eat preservative filled garbage from the school instead.


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276239 - 04/12/11 01:42 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Well, what's in school lunches is pretty tightly regulated to make sure it's as healthy as it can be, but that's only if you eat the entire thing.

If you wanted to control this shit, I'd say ban prepackaged foods from the cafeteria EXCEPT for one of those little bags of chips. Good source of carbs, and the brain needs carbs to function and grow properly.

Any home cooked meal, unless it was deep-fried, way more healthy than all the junk food most people eat, and kids should learn to develop a taste for home cooking rather than having food just thrown at them by some nameless face.

Shit, I know how to cook for myself and can cook some well-balanced meals, but since I grew up eating junk food that's what I crave when I'm hungry. It's a hard habit to break, impossible if you don't have any voting power in the groceries.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette] * 1
    #14276248 - 04/12/11 01:43 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

school district trying to make more money possibly?
I would be pissed if I was a parent...

again, shroomerette...epic sig :thumbup:


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Anthony917]
    #14276348 - 04/12/11 02:22 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Obviously brainwashing chemicals in the food.


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: propensity] * 3
    #14276358 - 04/12/11 02:27 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Schools should not have the right to control what the kids eat, period. That should be up to the parents.

And I'm sure the school lunches aren't as healthy as some potential home made lunches.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: BlueJayWay]
    #14276365 - 04/12/11 02:32 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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BlueJayWay said:
Schools should not have the right to control what the kids eat, period. That should be up to the parents.

And I'm sure the school lunches aren't as healthy as some potential home made lunches.



I wouldnt mind the schools controlling what we eat one bit if the food they provided didn't suck in most cases. During high school i lived off of fast food for the most part during lunches because the school food was shittier/more expensive than jackinthebox.


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276374 - 04/12/11 02:35 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

sounds like a major cash grab.

The mass produced/GMO shit that cafeterias/restaurants etc feed people is pretty gross once you take the processing/product sources into account.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14276380 - 04/12/11 02:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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I wouldnt mind the schools controlling what we eat one bit if the food they provided didn't suck in most cases.





Eh, for me personally, I care more about the freedom issue than the nutrition issue.

But the nutrition issue seems partially subjective anyway; some people believe you should never eat grains, some people think meat isn't an optimal choice, some people think that low fat diets are good, while others choose low carb diets. From what I know, nutritionists haven't reached a real agreement on what the perfect diet is, and the food pyramid seems to be a work in progress.

But my real problem is that they're taking away the parent's right to feed their child. If it was a private school, it'd be okay to have this kind of rule in my opinion, but it's not okay in a public school because your kid HAS to go to that school. The government doesn't have the right to control what your child, or you, can eat, as far as I see it. And this rule is doing exactly that.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette] * 2
    #14276388 - 04/12/11 02:42 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:dudewtf: is wrong with America. That reminds me of other retarded laws like banning organic vegetable cultivation or prohibiting the use of rain water collecting barrels :facepalm:

Burn down your fucking retarded country :kingcrankey:


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: mellowparty]
    #14276416 - 04/12/11 03:02 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Fuck those niggas. You're forced to go to school 'till your around 18 and they ban what you put in yourself. They should go fuck themselves.


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: mellowparty]
    #14276487 - 04/12/11 03:51 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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:dudewtf: is wrong with America. That reminds me of other retarded laws like banning organic vegetable cultivation or prohibiting the use of rain water collecting barrels :facepalm:

Burn down your fucking retarded country :kingcrankey:







Pretty much. Even though Alberta/saskatchewan hosts a shitload of Monsanto-style gmo canola it's not as bad as the crazy Monsanto style gmo shit that comes out of the entirety of the states INCLUDING live stalk. And really, where the fuck else do you think shit's obtained for mass distribution (re: restaurants, cafeterias, etc??)

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276561 - 04/12/11 04:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:rofl:

Is this shit for real? Counter obesity by banning food? Fuck, I thought you guys
where a free country, where people could choose to get fat at school if they so wanted...


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: candyaddict]
    #14276578 - 04/12/11 05:08 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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candyaddict said:
sounds like a major cash grab.






Exactly, this has nothing to do with nutrition and everything to do with taking in more money for providing the food.

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Yacub]
    #14276608 - 04/12/11 05:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

yup and think of all the fat kids who are going to loose there gf's and bf's over this, nolonger will the poor hot chicks get to smooch off the mcdonalds guy, most likely leading to mass suicides, as if loosing mcdonalds alone wasn't enough to cause such a stir


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Shroomerette]
    #14276615 - 04/12/11 05:38 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Link to source story?


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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: Synesthetic]
    #14276662 - 04/12/11 06:10 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Synesthetic said:
Well, what's in school lunches is pretty tightly regulated to make sure it's as healthy as it can be, but that's only if you eat the entire thing.






that's absolutely incorrect, how exactly is a hot dog supposed to be healthy,
how healthy is that chocolate or strawberry milk, then look at the other
think that go out, the pizza, a little cheese, a little sausage/meat, mostly
bread, what about the processed chicken fingers/nuggets

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, you can find the episodes on youtube but it
gives you a real look at what school food is all about, cases of processed
heat & eat crap

http://www.hulu.com/watch/231642/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-first-look-jamie-olivers-revolution

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Re: Chicago Schools banning homemade lunches... [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #14276678 - 04/12/11 06:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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yup and think of all the fat kids who are going to loose there gf's and bf's over this, nolonger will the poor hot chicks get to smooch off the mcdonalds guy, most likely leading to mass suicides, as if loosing mcdonalds alone wasn't enough to cause such a stir




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