USDA

[cravenchx]

Have you guys heard about the incident in Wake County,
where a 4 year olds lunch was taken away because it
wasn't USDA approved? The mother had packed a turkey
and cheese sandwich, an apple, potato chips and apple
juice. They took that lunch away from him?

What will they take next?

 

[speckledhen]

Link, please.

 

[cravenchx]

give me a minute, not very computer savvy

 

[cravenchx]

http://www.rushradio945.com/cc-common/mainheadlines2.html?feed=382989&article=9761675#

Sorry, it is Hoke County.
Hope this works.

 

[cravenchx]

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria-nuggets.html

here is another one

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks. That is outrageous! The nuggets they forced her to eat were about 100 steps down in nutrition from the lunch she had packed from home. Astounding, but this is what it's coming to-we have no right to feed our children what we know is good for them without gov't interference. Good thing it wasn't my child or there would have been more than a few articles written about the war at the school.

 

[cravenchx]

Thanks. That is outrageous! The nuggets they forced her to eat were about 100 steps down in nutrition from the lunch she had packed from home. Astounding, but this is what it's coming to-we have no right to feed our children what we know is good for them without gov't interference. Good thing it wasn't my child or there would have been more than a few articles written about the war at the school.

I feel the same way. Again, I ask "What's next?"

 

[mom'sfolly]

This is the work of an a local official with a Napoleon complex. It is not a USDA problem, it is a problem with an individual inspector, who didn't know the rules well enough to recognize that a sandwich and a banana met all the requirements for the meal. This inspector was clearly on some sort of power trip.

Turkey = meat serving
cheese = milk serving
bread = grain
banana = fruit serving
apple juice = fruit serving

Small-minded, stupid people often exercise power poorly. An this is what happened in this case. The official should lose the job because s/he obviously couldn't understand the standard s/he was supposed to enforce. Incompetence and power are not a pretty picture!

 

[cravenchx]

This is the work of an a local official with a Napoleon complex. It is not a USDA problem, it is a problem with an individual inspector, who didn't know the rules well enough to recognize that a sandwich and a banana met all the requirements for the meal. This inspector was clearly on some sort of power trip.

Turkey = meat serving
cheese = milk serving
bread = grain
banana = fruit serving
apple juice = fruit serving

Small-minded, stupid people often exercise power poorly. An this is what happened in this case. The official should lose the job because s/he obviously couldn't understand the standard s/he was supposed to enforce. Incompetence and power are not a pretty picture!

I agree the person should lose the job, but who hired them?
Someone trained them!


And, IMO, it's no ones business what I pack for my child for lunch.
So, with that said, why was there an inspector anyway?

 

[zazouse]

They have absolutely no right to make that decision unless they are USDA certified to do an inspection and have a license that allows them to do so.
These folks are idiots plain and simple. poor kid.

I wouldn't eat a chicken nugget if it was to keep me from starving to death, i just do not eat processed foods because of all the crap they put into it.
I am lucky that i have the room to raise just about all of my own food and know what i am eating instead of wondering whats in it..