The Hill reported that the Trump administration announced on Friday – Michelle Obama’s 56th birthday – that the school lunch standards on vegetables and fruits championed by Mrs. Obama will be rolled way back.
“The new standards will allow schools more flexibility ‘because they know their children best,’ the Agriculture Department said in a press release.
“Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common-sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened and now we’re getting to work,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement.
“The proposed rules build on previous steps taken by the Trump administration to unwind the controversial school lunch rules championed by Obama as part of her Let’s Move healthy living campaign. Those rules were implemented through an executive order signed by former President Obama,” The Hill reported.
Children will eat their lunches again and schools get to choose again. Big government loses another one.
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It’s obvious big Mo didn’t eat those kind of lunches;) Take a gander a big Mo..
I’m surprised that the lunch program installed by Obama first lady wasn’t trashed 3 years ago. It wasn’t helping kids, but made matters worse. Thank God it’s being better handled and the kids will eat the food instead of throwing it away. I didn’t know there was a penalty had to be paid – that sucked! Gone now.