Government Over-Reach

I have already blogged about this today over at jensgyrations.blogspot.com, but it just bugs me so much I'm gonna do it here, too. The government doesn't even think we're capable of feeding our children correctly. This kind of thing just makes me nuts!

In recent weeks, the first lady has been touring the country on campaign stops celebrating the two-year anniversary of the Let's Move Campaign. She's bragged about the Obama administration's so-called victories over childhood obesity including making school lunches "healthy" (never mind that no one appears willing to eat these new lunches), strong-arming grocery stores to change the very recipes for their house-brand products (even though many of these "healthy" new recipes aren't selling), and requiring restaurants to post calorie information on their menus (even though this information is largely ignored).

Congrats!

The administration has also done wonders for the child-parent relationship by managing to remove thousands of parents from the role of feeding their children by automatically enrolling low-income children in school-run feeding programs. And just yesterday, news broke of a perfect example of this creepy, big-brother overreach. 

In North Carolina, a state lunch inspector (what's that?) declared one elementary-school child's home-packed lunch of a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, banana, chips, and apple juice to be in violation of -- wait for it -- government nutrition standards. So, what healthy item did they offer this young child in place of her mother's lovingly packed lunch. I kid you not: chicken nuggets!

Really? The kid ate three chicken nuggets instead of her turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, chips, and apple juice. Oh right, that's MUCH better. But...that's not the point. It is none of the government's business what you feed your kids This is crazy, and it has to be stopped. Get the morons in power now OUT.