You Won't Believe What They're Feeding Our Kids for Lunch at School

It’s a well known fact that childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in the US, yet many schools continue to serve lunches that have little to no nutritional value. And the problem isn’t a money one. According to the folks behind Fed Up, “There is no major cost difference between nutritious and not nutritious food at schools.” And yet, Fed Up reports, 71% of kids are unsatisfied with the lunches they’re served at school.
They wanted to do something about it, so they encouraged over 25K kids to participate in their “true state of school lunch,” a project that resulted in 7,025 photos being sent in that document school lunches from around the country.

Now Fed Up is posting these pics and allowing visitors to vote whether to “Eat it” or “Toss it.”
Here are some examples of the "food" they are feeding our children…

Pork slop

Crispy potato wedges

Noodle surprise

"Nachos"

“Pasta”

Chili dog and cheese fries

Some sort of hot pocket thing

All the more disturbing is the fact that the government is pushing to ban homemade lunches in schools. One school that we have written about before has been documented forcing parents to produce a doctor's note if they wish to send their child to school with a home made lunch. Another recorded instance came to light when a school was caught fining parents for not including "grains" in their child's lunch, which was then "supplemented" with Ritz Crackers. This is indeed a disturbing trend which must be opposed by parents and anyone else that cares about the health and well being of our youth.

Sources:
twentytwowords.com
rawforbeauty.com
isupportorganic.blogspot.com
naturalcuresnotmedicine.com
fedup.dosomething.org

School charged parents $10 for not including "grains" in child's lunch, gave the kid Ritz Crackers

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Image: weightymatters.ca

Imagine this: you pack a homemade lunch for your child with all the food you think he or she should be eating; then you find out that the school deemed your child's lunch incomplete, adding Ritz Crackers to "supplement" nutrition.

This is exactly what happened to a Canadian mother, who was in for a rude awakening after finding out that leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk was insufficient according to Canadian government standards.

To add insult to injury, the woman was also fined $10 by the school for not including "grains" in the child's lunch, which was in turn supplemented by the school in the form of Ritz Crackers!

Here is the note. Credit: weightymatters.ca

According to Weighty Matters:

"She sent her children to daycare with with lunches containing leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk. 

She did not send along any "grains". 

As a consequence the school provided her children with, I kid you not, supplemental Ritz Crackers, and her with a $10 fine."

Parents are growing increasingly weary of government "standards" when it comes to raising their children after this ridiculous incident and another incident that we covered when a school claimed that a student needed a doctor's note to bring lunch from home.

While grain is an important part of our diet, it's also important to note that processed wheat has been shown to have a negative impact on our health as well as having illegal and unsafe genetically modified DNA from crop cross-pollination and genetic pollution from experimental Monsanto crops.