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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Score One for the Crony Capitalists in the School Lunch Program

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Source:     Natural Health
Publication Date:     20-Dec-11
 Link: Score One for the Crony Capitalists in the School Lunch Program
Stephan:   Yet another example of how the desires of corporate special interests trump the needs of the American population. To the special interests children are little valves to open access to public tax monies -- each child a profit center. The fact this diet, as described, results in their suffering from obesity, and a host of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes is actually desirable for the special interests because these illnesses are the way the Illness Profit System also uses the children as profit centers. The entire process chain is disgusting and immoral.

Pizza remains a vegetable and you can have as many greasy fries as you like, all thanks to Congress.

What kind of country allows what appears to be open financial corruption to poison its children’s school lunches? The answer seems to be our country.

Last January, the USDA made a feeble attempt to improve the situation by making school lunches healthier through better Dietary Guidelines. As we reported then, the agency’s goals of including more vegetables and whole grains in the lunch program were laudable. But USDA officials didn’t pay attention to real nutrition research, and ended up advocating a diet that can actually make people obese.

Unfortunately, other government food programs also rely on USDA guidelines and have notably poor nutrition plans. For example, the government WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program includes soy-based infant formula as an alternative to milk-despite the documented dangers to infants from soy chemicals mimicking estrogen or other hormones.

In general, the USDA, which seems more concerned with getting food sold than making our children healthy, gets a very poor grade as a nutrition advisor. But it gets worse. Far worse.

Congress just passed an appropriations bill including a particular rider (an additional provision added to a bill which […]

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