Kids lunch replaced because it was NOT healthy enough

[GeoFisher]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14...-with-nuggets/

WOW.

[DJD]

Sure would like to see some info on nutritional value of chicken nuggets. Why do I feel thus person was full of crap?? Fried food adds what value??
This kind of thing scares me. So now a school official can make a decision like this which I'm my mind is a violation of privacy.
I would be over the top pissed off!

[kydonky]

Sure would like to see some info on nutritional value of chicken nuggets. Why do I feel thus person was full of crap?? Fried food adds what value??
This kind of thing scares me. So now a school official can make a decision like this which I'm my mind is a violation of privacy.
I would be over the top pissed off!

I read the Fox article and was left with more questions than answers.

1) the school lunch only had the chicken nuggets mentioned? I would assume there was probably a fruit and vegtable with other items in the school lunch that were not mentioned. Fair and Ballanced?

2) they mention regulations attributed to Health and Human Services. They say how these were interpited by someone but they don't say who this someone is or who employs her. So was this a decision of a local school board and not really the federal government? Who the parent sues my shed light on the answer. I bet the suit is against the local shool board.

3) there are probably over 300 children in this school minimum. How many of these kids came to school with 4 crackers and a spoon of peanut butter and then received a healthy lunch. How many would have had no lunch if it were not for the school lunch.

4) if this is truely a federal mandate to inspect all brought in lunches why is there only the one complaint in all of SC and none in other states?


So this article is just another hype grabber. There is little doubt that school lunches for developing children are very lacking in nutrition. News stories just today highlight improvements being implimented here in KY.

[GeoFisher]

I read the Fox article and was left with more questions than answers.

1) the school lunch only had the chicken nuggets mentioned? I would assume there was probably a fruit and vegtable with other items in the school lunch that were not mentioned. Fair and Ballanced?

2) they mention regulations attributed to Health and Human Services. They say how these were interpited by someone but they don't say who this someone is or who employs her. So was this a decision of a local school board and not really the federal government? Who the parent sues my shed light on the answer. I bet the suit is against the local shool board.

3) there are probably over 300 children in this school minimum. How many of these kids came to school with 4 crackers and a spoon of peanut butter and then received a healthy lunch. How many would have had no lunch if it were not for the school lunch.

4) if this is truely a federal mandate to inspect all brought in lunches why is there only the one complaint in all of SC and none in other states?


So this article is just another hype grabber. There is little doubt that school lunches for developing children are very lacking in nutrition. News stories just today highlight improvements being implimented here in KY.

Yea, FOX reports better then any of the other mainstream media outlets......But here is the article from a LOCAL station. They must be a FOX affiliated newspaper because the stated the same thing.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclu...a-nuggets.html

[pontooner]

Yea, FOX reports better then any of the other mainstream media outlets......But here is the article from a LOCAL station. They must be a FOX affiliated newspaper because the stated the same thing.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclu...a-nuggets.html

Just for fun http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012170010 Regular Viewers of Fox News More Likely To Be Misinformed


Also about the lunch thing, the school is saying students are required to have milk and that she was told this but misunderstood and thought she needed a new lunch so she went to the cafeteria and got the schools lunch that consisted of the nuggets.

[Tim_T]

Just for fun http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012170010 Regular Viewers of Fox News More Likely To Be Misinformed


Also about the lunch thing, the school is saying students are required to have milk and that she was told this but misunderstood and thought she needed a new lunch so she went to the cafeteria and got the schools lunch that consisted of the nuggets.

Where did you read that? I didn't find it in the Carolina Journal article. In fact the article had this: While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said that should not have been a problem.

"With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the dairy," said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division. "It sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the standard." The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she said.

[pontooner]

Where did you read that? I didn't find it in the Carolina Journal article. In fact the article had this: While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said that should not have been a problem.

"With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the dairy," said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division. "It sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the standard." The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she said.

Saw them talking to someone from the school on CNN who said that's what happened.


Edited to add link: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ntroversy.wtvd

[GeoFisher]

Media Matters??

You're really using them as a legitimate source??

[pontooner]

Media Matters??

You're really using them as a legitimate source??

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient...w=1152&bih=582

[GeoFisher]

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient...w=1152&bih=582

WELL after doing some of my OWN digging.........I found this:

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

* That is the group that did the poll
* 600 people...........
* ALL from New Jersey

Yea, GREAT FREAKIN poll, and a brilliant example WHY I HATE the MEDIA.....and more importantly why I'm totally, TOTALLY disgusted with liberals........and conservatives that use bullcrap polls like this. All it does is generate a list of CRAPPY misinformation.

I can give you a billion examples of National polls and national statistics.

I can also GUARANTEE you that most smart liberals and most smart conservatives know that some media outlets are slanted.

I used to think you fell into that category, but I'm not too sure anymore.

Later,

Geo

[pontooner]

WELL after doing some of my OWN digging.........I found this:

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

* That is the group that did the poll
* 600 people...........
* ALL from New Jersey

Yea, GREAT FREAKIN poll, and a brilliant example WHY I HATE the MEDIA.....and more importantly why I'm totally, TOTALLY disgusted with liberals........and conservatives that use bullcrap polls like this. All it does is generate a list of CRAPPY misinformation.

I can give you a billion examples of National polls and national statistics.

I can also GUARANTEE you that most smart liberals and most smart conservatives know that some media outlets are slanted.

I used to think you fell into that category, but I'm not too sure anymore.

Later,

Geo

LOL, I knew when I posted that it would get you in a uproar over the attack on the all mighty alter that is Fox News. If you notice I did say "just for fun" when I posted it.

Most polls are usually done using small numbers of people that fit into larger demograpic groups, in this case I would assume it used people who watched Fox, CNN, NPR.... as their news sources and I would think they required a certain amount of time watching their prefered source before being allowed to participate. Both of these should cause no different outcome in the results no matter where they polled because it's the same Fox News, CNN, NPR.... in NJ as it is any where else.

I know that polls, stats and the like can be worded to get the desired results but I'm not sure this is the case here. JMHO


I really don't prefer any of the media outlets and watch a little of all of them when I have a chance but Fox News and MSNBC leave a really bad taste in my mouth after about 15 min of watching either one.

[Tim_T]

They should have used the United State as a sample, not a foreign country like New Jersey. They don't even believe in the U.S. Constitution in New Jersey.