Oct 3, 2012
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A Florida school district is considering a plan to install surveillance cameras on cafeteria trash cans to monitor what kids are throwing away – after they discovered that students were tossing out their federally-mandated fruit and vegetables.
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The Lake County School Board said more than $75,000 worth of vegetables have been thrown in the garbage. The veggies and fresh fruit are party of the Obama administration’s policy to force schools to provide healthy produce in lunch rooms.
“It’s fairly specific recipe of what they would like us to serve,” Lake County School Board member Tod Howard told Fox News. “Unfortunately, much of it has to do with fresh fruit and vegetables and it seems to be going into the trash. And that’s not okay.”
So Howard suggested the district attach security cameras to the trash cans to monitor exactly what is being thrown away.
“It will also give us documentation so that we can go back to the federal government and say here’s what we are finding,” he said. “We do know there’s an issue.”
School districts across the nation are furious with the Obama administration’s orders. Some students have staged strikes while others have launched petition drives urging the federal government to change their policy.
But Lake County is believed to be the first to actually videotape kids tossing their veggies – and that has some parents upset.
“So we’re going to spend how many more thousands of dollars to put cameras on trash cans to document the thousands of dollars in food the kids are throwing away,” one parent wrote on ClickOrlando.com “This is a no brainer, kids are not going to eat the stuff served at school. Has anyone really looked at these lunch trays?”
“Why not just remove the kids from their parent’s home at 3 – 5 years-old and put them in mass dormitories where their entire lives can be monitored and properly controlled so that they become properly modeled citizens and serve as they are needed by our enlightened leaders,” another reader wrote.
A number of parents were concerned that their children might be videotaped.
“Because no matter what they say, they are going to try to identify the kids throwing the food away and then social workers and courts will get involved,” wrote one local resident. “If your child doesn’t eat his school lunch, you will face punishment. Think I’m wrong? There are cities and states that punish the adults if the children are truant or get in trouble with the law in any manner. Your kid threw away a carrot? Go to jail. This is what we are coming to.”
Howard called those concerns “conspiracy theories” and said they were not going to force kids to eat their vegetables.
“I don’t want anybody to be on camera at all,” he told Fox News. “This would be aimed directly into the trash can. By no means would any of our students be in the picture.”
He said the cameras were meant to give the school district evidence they need to push back against the federal guidelines.
“If we just can’t get kids to eat broccoli and 90 percent of it is going in the trash – that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars – and the federal government needs to look at their mandate,” he said. “We have no choice in the matter. This is just a tool to help us document he issue.”
No decisions have been made on the cameras – yet.
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Take your federally mandated veggies and shove them you know where you commie pigs! Typical of this asinine administration!
When school administrators think this stuff up, it should be used as a cue to dump them.
When school administrators think this stuff up, it should be used as a cue to dump them.
Here in Germany, the elementary school on our Army post has the children dump their leftover food into a separate trash can and then gives it to the local farmers to feed their hogs. This means the food doesn't go to waste. I don't know how much the farmers pay for the leftovers…it would be interesting to find out. I think healthy meals are a good idea, but serve items the kids will eat!
We used to do this in my last school! The school collected its school dinner waste and gave it to the local farmer for the pigs! (for free
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I don't think there are any local farmers where I am now. lol
Just when you think you've heard it all!
Sweet! Spend thousands on trash can cameras. Fantastic idea!
Unreal. The government is gaining way too much control.
Unreal. The government is gaining way too much control.
they can just layoff more teachers.
LOL Really?!!!
That is a joke ! Please people wake up and vote this guy out! This is all created by the almighty one ! We soon will have no freedoms , with the path this country is on!
Sweet! Spend thousands on trash can cameras. Fantastic idea!
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
Instead let's install cameras in the classrooms to see if we can figure out "why Johnny can't read." What an idiotic waste of money!
Instead let's install cameras in the classrooms to see if we can figure out "why Johnny can't read." What an idiotic waste of money!
Instead let's install cameras in the classrooms to see if we can figure out "why Johnny can't read." What an idiotic waste of money!
Instead let's install cameras in the classrooms to see if we can figure out "why Johnny can't read." What an idiotic waste of money!
If you don't eat your brocoli, how can you have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your brocoli.
Such an obviously obsurd idea and such a waste of money. Where are thoughts on improving the educational system? Not in these idiots heads!
BS, school authorities are copying Mayor Blooming idiot from New York policies, schools are always looking for more dollars maybe the kids parents will be fined. is this a democratic school as in Philedelphia with the t-shirt?
BS, school authorities are copying Mayor Blooming idiot from New York policies, schools are always looking for more dollars maybe the kids parents will be fined. is this a democratic school as in Philedelphia with the t-shirt?
Maybe the schools should actually worry more about what goes into the kids brains (education) and less about what goes into their stomachs, then the kids can graduate and buy their own lunches.
How about not spying on our kids. How about taking the flipping cameras and installing them in every journalist's bathroom – because what they propose to do with this in schools is JUST AS FULL OF SHIT. This needs to end.
Couldn't they save a few thousand taxpayers dollars and just look in the trash and take notes?
Is this more freebie taxpayer money from the FEDS?
Haven't spent that allotment yet so make something up?
Kids don't like veggies? Who knew? Duh. More stupidity from the namesless, faceless bureaucrats working under the thumb of Moochelle and Tom Vilsack. Your kids are sheep to be led to the slaughter. First, they can't seem to educate them. Now, they don't know how to feed them. The solution? Home schooling. Do it yourself and get them out of the government propaganda, social engineering mills known as schools.
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
What have we turned into the STASI? I agree with these kids who made this video WE ARE HUNGRY……A parody on the national school lunch policy mandated by The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. No copyright infringement of original song "We Are Young"… http://youtu.be/2IB7NDUSBOo
https://www.facebook.com/NutritionNannies
https://www.facebook.com/NutritionNannies
http://youtu.be/2IB7NDUSBOo
http://youtu.be/2IB7NDUSBOo
When Given a choice , rodents and pigs will not consume these foods, but they can force your child to eat it , and the parents do not even know. they will not look what it is, or why it is banned in other countries. I feel for our childern. http://youtu.be/P5B62cbwP_E
Dave I hunt an grow my own veggies…thats not the point. We are not all of the same mind set as Cass Sunstein……and by the organic can be dangerous too when you have fools growing it……I was into macrobiotic food in the late 60's an early 70's an realized like Organic now there allot people making allot of money off it…..I'll grow my own….I believe in eating GOD'S FOOD…..all this crap today is laced with chemicals etc…cheese is not cheese and meat is mystery meat in some cases…..But I don't have the right to tell people how to eat…an what to eat….its called FREEDOM OF CHOICE…as a x-hippie a cherished ideal to live by…..
Dave I hunt an grow my own veggies…thats not the point. We are not all of the same mind set as Cass Sunstein……and by the organic can be dangerous too when you have fools growing it……I was into macrobiotic food in the late 60's an early 70's an realized like Organic now there allot people making allot of money off it…..I'll grow my own….I believe in eating GOD'S FOOD…..all this crap today is laced with chemicals etc…cheese is not cheese and meat is mystery meat in some cases…..But I don't have the right to tell people how to eat…an what to eat….its called FREEDOM OF CHOICE…as a x-hippie a cherished ideal to live by…..
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-study-shows-its-a-myth-that-organic-foods-are-healthier-2012-9?fb_action_ids=4614170561750&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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Why cameras? Instead, how about separate bins to collect the fresh produce? Then you can track the weight each day, and use it for compost – rather than sending it to a landfill or to be burned. How about surveys to the families asking what kind of fresh produce the kids like? If they like carrots, but not broccoli, then why serve broccoli? Some of the kids do eat the fresh produce, and those that don't are the same ones that also don't eat it at home. If the parents don't like paying for a school lunch the kids won't eat, then don't! Pack them a lunch with whatever you think they should have. Meanwhile the kids who qualify for free lunch get a well-balanced meal once a day, rather than just the junk their parents can "afford" to pick up at the grocery store.
http://theblogappleguide.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-york-is-known-for-being-expensive.html
Big brother is watching…if you want the nanny state that Obama wants then be prepared to be monitored and regulated like never before. They will tell you it's for your OWN GOOD…but really we who are free to think without the governments influence know better. Michelle says its a "threat to our national security" to be obese. Obama is a bigger threat! The Middle East is burning while he campaigns…NOBAMA2012!!
The problem is too many people want to be taken care of instead of taking measures to care for themselves… But history always repeats itself, where there is safety / dependence on gov, there is government control…
Neither the kids, parents nor veggies are the problem. The problem is the communist government attempting to control and monitor every step in our lives. I would suggest a camera be placed in the rectum of Michelle Obama in an attempt to located her brain, along with the remainder of the head.
Great comments, I agree, let's send the fruit and vegetable trash to Mrs. Vomit-Obama. She is making all the kids sick of their school lunches and it's going to get worse with the more area this "healthy" lunch law covers. It will cover and control the whole countries school lunch program if he gets reelected. Yes WE cannot afford another for years of this insanity! This is a real HUGE step towards taking our personal freedom, and it's placing unrealistic expectations on parents who can't afford fresh fruits and vegatables because the economy is so bad, the national debt is so bad and Obama is going to Raise the taxes again. That's a for SURE thing that will happen right after he gets reelected. Did you read that people? Well, I did a couple of weeks ago on more than one website and that will make it even harder for these parents who this administration is trying forcing their kids to eat these vegetables and fruits. So yeah let's spend more money we don't have on video cameras trying to catch kids throwing away what they don't like that they aren't used to eating or just don't like because they don't get it at home. their parents can't afford it, they are drug addicts, poor and they aren't used to they being forced to eat it. I bet if the Vomitbomas asked the kids their favorites they would eat a lot more goos stuff, apples, beans, corn, oranges, bananas, fruits and vegetables kids are more likely to get. But go ahead and keep voting for the liberals, pay for the abortions, these cameras and see what the next for years bring. They will bring your House DOWN.
So now they are filming the kids without the parents permission? Should be useful for the pederasts.
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