I hate Mayor Mike....

The thing I find funny is that the artificial sweeteners in diet drinks premote fat storage more so then regular drins.

agentwhale007 wrote: What about bans on soda in public schools?

100% for this actually. Difference being, for the most part school kids are minors, not adults. However, it does lead to the argument about calorie values of school lunches. This has gotten nearly out of hand as lunches currently are pretty disgusting, at least here. My kids arent the pickiest eaters, but I find more and more days that we are having to pack lunches simply because what is being served sucks, and not because of whats being served, but because what is being served has had all of the flavor, fat, and salt taken out of it making it a mushy pile of goo that tastes like paper.

oldpbnoob wrote: agentwhale007 wrote: What about bans on soda in public schools?  100% for this actually. Difference being, for the most part school kids are minors, not adults.

 

Edited by agentwhale007 - 06 June 2012 at 1:19pm

Might a well sell their student records to companies, to make up for budget cuts.

__sneaky__ wrote: Kayback wrote: That is not a good answer for a 140 BILLION Dollar problem. And it is a crappy example. In your " free country" there are plenty of things you cant do that the goverment controls for your benifit. Pretty much any law actually......... Enforced guidelines arw already in place for other food additives. I dont see a problem with this. I do agree it is a little silly, but next you'll be arguing agsinst laws prohibiting asbestos. I'm not trying to argue semantics and specific legislation, I'm hardly a lawyer. My statement was more so based on principle. How free do you really consider your country to be if you are legally banned from buying a large soda? If we have proven ourselves incapable of choosing our own diets, we are hardly capable of choosing our government representatives.

Also, I should say we have also proven fairly consistently we can't pick good representatives either. This may or may not be due to the stock of people who choose to run for government. Which leads us to that famous "Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy" quote : the only people fit to govern others are those who want nothing to do with it.

Edited by *Stealth* - 06 June 2012 at 3:45pm

agentwhale007 wrote:   I'm a proponent of soda and sports drink bans in public schools.

The problem with that is, the schools don't seem to be smart enough to figure out what is 'good' and 'not good'

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/n-c-food-inspector-sends-girls-lunch-home-after-determining-its-not-healthy-enough/

Remember, the 'state' who is watching out for obesity and unealthy kids, came to this conclusion not too long ago:

Yummy

So here I am wondering- how, with decisions like the two I've linked above can we trust state organizations with deciding what we can and can't (or our kids can and can't) consume? I know there's some crappy parents out there, but believe me, governmental organizations aren't any better.

evillepaintball wrote: I agree with it on a personal level.  I hate seeing fatties...unless they are hoisting boxes high above their heads.

>_>

Not sure if I should be offended.

Reb Cpl wrote: agentwhale007 wrote:  <div style="color: rgb0, 0, 0 !imant; "> <div style="color: rgb0, 0, 0 !imant; ">I'm a proponent of soda and sports drink bans in public schools.  The problem with that is, the schools don't seem to be smart enough to figure out what is 'good' and 'not good' http://www.theblaze.com/stories/n-c-food-inspector-sends-girls-lunch-home-after-determining-its-not-healthy-enough/ Remember, the 'state' who is watching out for obesity and unealthy kids, came to this conclusion not too long ago: Yummy So here I am wondering- how, with decisions like the two I've linked above can we trust state organizations with deciding what we can and can't (or our kids can and can't) consume? I know there's some crappy parents out there, but believe me, governmental organizations aren't any better.

Actually, here's the honest-to-god lowdown on sports drinks and sodas in schools. They're profitable. The school contracts with a vending company to put the machines in. The vending company will forego their usual 70% commission rate on the profit knowing that the kids don't have an opportunity to buy it from a competitor and go 50/50 split on the sale price of a soda/sports drink with the school. That means for every $1.50 spent on a 20oz Coke at a school, the school itself is pocketing $0.75 and the vending company is pocketing $0.20 after costs. At a time when schools are woefully underfunded and teachers are spending money out of their own pockets for supplies in the classroom, schools are turning to these rather lucrative sales to bolster their funds for things like new computers, new textbooks, uniforms, sports equipment, etc.

The whole catch 22 is that if you pull the stuff the students WANT to drink and eat from vending, they won't spend the money meaning less funds for the school meaning a lower quality of education. Much like everything else in the Green and Health-Conscious movements today, if you narrow the focus, you loose sight of the bigger picture.

Pretty sure The Simpsons already covered this.