Wednesday, August 21

 
School Dumps Junk Food for More Healthful Snacks

Here's a good lesson in how to skew the news. The Center for Consumer Freedom, which despises anything that smacks of do-gooderism, especially in food, had a knee-slapping good time with this story about a school in Fresno that will enforce a no-junk-food policy on campus and is putting less junky junk food in its school store. The center seems to think this does kids a tremendous disservice. I say, good for them. The Center takes particular glee in quoting a teacher saying that she'd snatch a bag of Chee-tos right out of the hand of an unsuspecting grade-schooler. This apparently is the height of political incorrectness. Okay, if I want to give my kid a bag of salty or fatty snacks for lunch, that should be my right. But if I know the school is trying to encourage better eating habits, I'll just save the Doritos for a snack at home.
posted by Unknown 12:38 PM