16-09-2005 19:02									#1
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The Governator puts a stop on child obesity, and fights the junk food in schools.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CL34SO7.html

	16-09-2005 19:06									#2
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This BS is going on in AR too...

In the end, schools will stop making money from vending, and taxpayers will have to make up the difference...

	16-09-2005 19:15									#3
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Oh yeah its a really bad idea to feed kids good food

	16-09-2005 19:22									#4
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And it's a really bad idea to pay for education.

	16-09-2005 19:53									#5
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yeah the billions of profits from vending machines outpay the billions lost in health care etc because of obesity and the illnesses it provides, adult diabetes and all those things.

Or not.

	16-09-2005 20:56									#6
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Oh god! Oh no. Danm, damn, damn, damn!!!!!

I agree with Pekka! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	16-09-2005 20:59									#7
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell This BS is going on in AR too... In the end, schools will stop making money from vending, and taxpayers will have to make up the difference...

Is it non-taxpayers pumping coins into those vending machines? Where did the $$ come from?

	16-09-2005 21:14									#8
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This brings about a good business idea. A business that would sell healthy food, but also good tasting food. You could compete with any of the dominating services such as Sodexo etc and still come up pretty high if you can put on a good show and catering, and bring the prices low enough. IT would be easy to campagn and promote it on that basis alone.

You could have lots of schools, work places etc taking your services, provided that you can compete with the prices.

Healthy image.

Then show how much it benefits companies to eat healthy, less sick leaves, more productive work, happier people and more productive minds.

It would make a killing.

Who is with me?!

	16-09-2005 21:17									#9
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The problem is that the school lunch programs have always been about giving Federal dollars to big business, rather than feeding kids.

Plus, I don't think my school cafeterias are up to making decent healthy food.

	16-09-2005 21:19									#10
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Right, I know it's business, that's why you have to become a business of providing the better option. And win in the business.

	16-09-2005 23:24									#11
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Purchasing from a vending machine is a choice. No one forces students to do it, and schools make huge amounts of cash that would otherwise simply not be there. The profits fund technology, extracurricular activities, building improvements, etc.

Student obesity is an individual's problem, and schools already serve healthy lunches as it is...what one eats outside school is what makes the problem...

quote: And it's a really bad idea to pay for education.

Don't get me wrong, I believe paying taxes is one's patriotic duty, but this is money that won't be replaced, people aren't anxious to raise taxes.

	16-09-2005 23:38									#12
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ok rock on pepsi and coke I guess, they keep schools funded

lol

	17-09-2005 01:30									#13
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just a thought

should DINKS (dual income no kids ), pay taxes/fees to improve the educational system and if so how much.

I dont mind helping out in general, but they keep on taking more and providing less. I wish I could take all the money back and buy my own school system.

	17-09-2005 01:33									#14
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All I'm going to say to this matter, that it's a sad sad situation, where some goddamn junk food provider or soda maker pays for your school stuff to such extent, that you are depending on it. And at the end, they're making money, while your kids just get fat and obese.

That's not a good deal.

Time to stop it.

	17-09-2005 01:34									#15
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I saw a study somewhere that pretty much concluded that students who have a healthy lunch behave and perform better in their studies.

	17-09-2005 01:35									#16
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PR, what would you do with your school system, given that you have no kids to send to it?

Pekka, the reason that companies serve rubbish to kids is that it is the cheapest food to produce. Have you heard about the Jamie Oliver thing we had here last year?

	17-09-2005 01:42									#17
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So? The food providers offer what the school or who ever bought. So what if it costs a little more to provide healthy food? It IS at the end the cheaper way, not to mention the right way.

It's when you start saving from things like these, kids, is when it's all going into shitter sooner or later witih the whole thing.

If we can afford it, why can't you?

	17-09-2005 01:45									#18
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Ask the DfEE, not me.

http://www.channel4.com/life/micros...ners/index.html

A precis of the Jamie Oliver campaign/stunt (depending upon how cynical of his motives you are).

	17-09-2005 01:46									#19
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Well done Terminator.

First they got rid of the sodas, now the junk food.

Having a healthy diet affects absolutley everything someone does. Kids learn way WAY better when they are eating right, and also have less behavioral problems. These are on top of the health benefits of not being chubby.

That junk food should have never been in schools in the first place. Because of our privitization whoring, once again many schools have been sold out to private companies, who send lots of processed food in bulk that is poor in nutritional value.

School lunches really are crap, and it's time to address that and get our kids a healthy foundation to support the rest of their lives.

	17-09-2005 01:49									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Platypus Rex just a thought should DINKS (dual income no kids ), pay taxes/fees to improve the educational system and if so how much. I dont mind helping out in general, but they keep on taking more and providing less. I wish I could take all the money back and buy my own school system.

You are part of society no matter if you have kids or no kids. Not wanting to pay taxes to the school district just because you have no kids is selfish and self centered.

	17-09-2005 01:50									#21
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quote: Originally posted by duke o' york Pekka, the reason that companies serve rubbish to kids is that it is the cheapest food to produce. Have you heard about the Jamie Oliver thing we had here last year?

"Supersize Me" disproved that notion.

	17-09-2005 01:51									#22
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"That junk food should have never been in schools in the first place. Because of our privitization whoring, once again many schools have been sold out to private companies, who send lots of processed food in bulk that is poor in nutritional value."

Tadaaa exactly.

The sad thing is when not everyone feels this is absolutely obviously trivial!!

All you say is money this money that. I say screw money you can afford it easily. What's all the 'we so rich we make your teeth hurt!'. We can afford it, so can you, even with the lower taxes.

Buy less nukes and feed your kids right. There's a priority. Arnie is doing the right thing. You need to say **** Off to anyone who tries to talk you out of doing the right thing with education and kids - otherwise you're saying that to your own future.

	17-09-2005 01:53									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka 'we so rich we make your teeth hurt!'.

And rot, too!

	17-09-2005 01:55									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka Buy less nukes and feed your kids right.

PEKKA UBER ALLES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone else can go veda kateen!!!!!

	17-09-2005 01:56									#25
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Advertising junk food and fast food to kids is the main reason of too many kids getting fat. Also, school food tastes like crap. If it wasn't for those two things there would be less kids going to the vending machines in the first place.

	17-09-2005 01:57									#26
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Put healthy stuff in the vending machines. Problem solved.

	17-09-2005 01:57									#27
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$450bn, the US defense budget last year.

Contentious, I know, but they don't do a bad job of policing/protecting the world (depending on your standpoint), but some things are more important. Without investing in the future, then there will be fewer Americans to enjoy the safe, peaceful world that their armies are hopefully going to bring.

	17-09-2005 01:59									#28
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On the other hand, I have a vested interest in keeping Americans fat, as it makes me look skinny and therefore easier to SCORE WITH THE LADIES.

	17-09-2005 02:00									#29
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quote: Originally posted by pchang Put healthy stuff in the vending machines. Problem solved.

Hear, hear. Give them no choice whatsoever. They have to eat healthily or not at all. The fightback against the crap they are given at home has to start at school. Sure, some may be old enough to disappear to Maccy D's at lunchtime, but by the time the first grade kids get to that age, then they'll have eaten healthily throughout their school career and will be far less likely to throw it all away then.

Ted, as if you've even got any competition.