Schwarzenegger Signs Ban on School Junk Food

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Actually, Arnold could probably use a little less junk food himself these days. Just give all the kiddies a few cigars!

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i cant believe someone ("pr0") can see this as violating our liberties. i mean the fuckin fat kid can still walk during his lunch break half a kilometer and find junk food i mean businesses are aware of that and they stick to schools like flies to shit. thats what we did in my time. what the "piece of paper" is changing, is that there will be no physical distributor of junk food in that school... i dont think you have a 1st amendment right to mcdonalds during school hours do ya??? so basically whenever the fuck youre outta school hours or old enough to drop out of school, you can spend as many time as you want eating garbage nuttin personal i guess you were just talking fast or affected by all the mcdonals you ate as a child

Dude he's getting old . Steriods do that, not junk

now now let's don't go 2 extreme's....

banning porn...

You want kids to buy smokes, booze and porn in school? Are you fucked or what?

I remember when they started with the 1st Coke Mach. in some school. It was about the money the schools could make..

maybe 2 the children, not the parents, most are 2 fucking stupid to get it.

a good example is read the post in this thread.

man thats fucking ridiculous.. banning junk food lol.. shit i remember when school would hold fund raisers selling candy. ahh times have changed. i can see it already "kid gets suspended for selling snickers!" shit i guess this means no more valentines candy for the kiddies either. what a shame can't we keep anything good for the youth anymore.. school is already hell as it is lets just make it that much worse.

I look back at high school and what I had for lunch and cringe.

I remember ordering a big plate of fries, dousing it with ketchup and mustard, and that would be my meal. Oh, add a coke to that.

Good job Arnold!

That is so true - that book definitely enlightens you on the power of government interference. That should be on every school curiculum - if the government didn't run that as well. Definitely a book I encourage everyone I know to read. George Orwell was brilliant

I'd have a bean burrito or 2 from taco bell in the cafeteria & a mountain dew. It kept me awake for the 2nd half of the day.

Sorry to hear you were a teenage glutton.

But don't take it out on the other kids.

that picture has been proven to be fake. arnold can't grow hair on his chest as he had it permanently removed.

that was passed in fl a long time ago

I think that is a great thing to do......... kids nowadays eat way too much junk food and are overweight .........

ok & when you were 15 you would kick your own ass...right now

we get a little older & wiser and all the sudden we know whats best for kids

bullshit

pr0 i've read your comments throughout this thread and I have to disagree with you.

it's a very good idea to not make junk food (things that are negative to a persons health) readily available as a primary source of food. if these students, children, yadda yadda, want to pack their own lunch with their own junk food then GO AHEAD.

this is not about removing a persons rights at all. children are inherently ignorant and often times overlook consequences in the name of petty gratifications. that is a part of being a kid.

but when it comes to nutrition, it's something you can't give them free reign over (at least the students in K-8th grade) because it has the potential to really damage their health.

a school is an educational facility with the intention of developing and furthering a childs knowledge (that's the label, at least).. so it goes against logic to cram the cafeteria (food = source of fuel/energy) full of unhealthy food which has a direct effect on their performance both mentally and physically. it's like making liqour available in a room full of alcoholics, they LOVE it but they're also alcoholics (which we can all agree is not exactly a positive attribute).

so i fully believe in the removal of all the SHIT food in school cafeterias. it is only a positive thing, it won't kill the kids to have a healthy meal. they can either pack a lunch with whatever they want, or go home after and pig out.

if you had a child, you wouldn't let them enter a grocery store and pick out whatever the fuck they wanted and pig out would you? of course not, but that's exactly what most schools allow.

freedom is great, but as proven from day 1 in any structered human civilization there must be forms of restraints and "laws", solely for the fact that a part of human nature is ignorance.

good move in my opinion, hope he can maintain the healthy foods coming in, report indicate its really expensive to maintain that type of campaign.

it's a sad day when the state govt has to step in and be a parent.

maybe if parents better educated and better fed their children, there would be no need to take such an extreme measure to ensure a childs health.

being that the aforementioned apparently cannot be done, i think what arnold did is great. someone has to do the job.

better that he does it than have your kid end up in the hospital 25 years from now with liver damage.

Go visit a any free clinic and ask them what their top medial problems are -- all related to being fat and having terrible diets: diabetes, hypertension, etc.

Banning this shit in school is taking things to the extreme, then again, eating crap every day is too. Healthy food isn't cheap.

Most of this is laughable at best. Though the bill to provide more fruits and vegetables in the school provided meals is a good move.

This has nothing to do with buying french fries (which btw are most often air baked and not fried) or pizza (ok this shit was super greasy) in the cafeteria. For the most part school provided meals are very balanced and are often the only balanced meal kids get each day on average.

Onto the heart of this matter now. This ban is on vending machines and what can be sold through them in schools (middle and elementary). Before everyone gets all ban happy, where in the fuck is the parental responsibility? Kids need money in order to purchase such crap in the first place and for the most part kids in K through 8 or so do not have jobs or an income. So they must be being given this money to purchase crap from someone.

Now do not start with they are spending their lunch money on pepsi and snickers instead of a balanced meal crap either. Parents can and have almost always been able to pre-purchase school lunch tickets or vouchers, so there is really no reason to send the kids to school with money if your questioning their eating behaviors.

This is nothing more than a feel good ban with a possible hidden agenda. If you noticed there was no ban on vending machines themselves, it just is a ban on what can and can not be sold in them. Paving the way for plenty of sports drinks and powerbars I am sure, ok there will be a few spots for some juice and carob laced trail mix but please you can not tell me it is not making his friends happy in the excersize sports foods industry.

Why not address the real issue at hand. Schools have vending machines and some even have fast food franchises inside of them do to funding reasons. The schools need the money and nobody else is willing to give it to them or accept new taxes. So the schools do what they have to do and they get the money from the parents another way, they team up with the food industry and get paid. If schools did not need the money, you would not see such things in the first place.

Excuse pr0. He grew up poor in the trailer park and lived on sugar sandwiches. He doesn't know any better.

It's a shame it had to come to this. Can't parents ensure that their kids don't become obese? I've never understood this. Where's the self control.

my property tax went up this year and part of it went to schools. i don't even have a damn kid and i had to pay so where you come up with that is beyond me. and i am sure i am not the only person whose taxes went up regardless of what state i'm in.

I do not have kids either, and my property taxes also increase just like yours.
I do relize that the states school funding needs some major fucking fat trimmed off the top levels and laws to make sure that money actually makes it to the schools themselves and not lost along the way to the process of funding them.
Hell I seem to recall that the reason we passed the state lottery was to fund schools, yet they get next to nothing from it.

I graduated from HS 4 years ago and I have first hand experience that the average lunch of my "peers" was far from VERY BALANCED.

School provided meal or you talking the ala cart assorted bs you can purchase?

Yeah! What he said

Good move on Arnold's part. Wish they'd do that here in Michigan, this state is full of morbidly obese people.

Brad

rofl; if i was young i would pack in a 12 pack everyday.. give the fat kids credit, and charge them vic + 5% every week.

nice its about time

good. you go to any school around here, and there's soda machines EVERYWHERE. half the kids are way obese, and it's because of fucking soda and other sugar-based products. and most of the time, it's one of the teachers that are running the vending machines on campus. feh.

The word "children" is already plural, you don't need to add an "s" at the end.

When I was young there was no soda machines everywhere . Pepsi and coca cola hadn't started their war and started paying schools a lot of money (more then they make from the machines) so they can addict young people .