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‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

Sep. 25, 2012 8:12am Jonathon M. Seidl

New lunch guidelines passed in 2010 as part of Michelle Obama’s health initiative (the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act) limit the amount of calories school lunches can provide.
The number, 850, is forcing many to go hungry, as the restrictions don’t account for active vs. inactive students or boys vs. girls.
One group of teens (with the help of teachers) in Kansas created a video mocking the restrictions called “We Are Hungry” and it’s gone viral.
Some Republican lawmakers are trying to get the calorie limits repealed.

On Monday night, several stories popped up regarding students revolting against Michelle Obama’s new “healthy” school lunch mandates that restrict the amount of calories schools can serve. And while there are plenty of facts, information, and even interviews, nothing captures the heart of the story as much as a viral video made by a small group of high school kids mocking the program. So who are these kids and what sparked the video? We went digging and found out.

But before we reveal the story behind the video, here’s a compilation of stories framing the issue (all emphasis added).

Townhall.com:

In Wisconsin, high school athletes are complaining about not getting enough to eat each day, due to the skimpy new school lunch menu mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The story we published earlier this week on that subject is unfortunately not unique. Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.

Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.

“I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal,” middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.

Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it’s not pleasing students.

Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market – for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.

Daily Mail:

High schools are now forbidden from giving pupils more than 850 calories for their lunch – even if they are fast-growing teenagers or even student athletes.

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Now that the rules have come into effect for the new school year, many are concerned that some adolescents are being denied the quantities of food they need.

Student athletes can burn through as many as 5,000 calories a day – but they are still entitled to no more than 850 calories for their lunch.

Even though recommended calorie intake is different for males and females, the restrictions are the same for both boys and girls.

Great Falls Tribune:

As he grabbed lunch before a road trip to Malta for a football game, junior Joey Kercher quickly ate two slices of pizza, grapes and milk.

Then he left the school cafeteria for McDonald’s and his second lunch.

School lunch “is not enough,” he said.

Thanks to new USDA rules, Kercher could have had however many servings of vegetables he wanted — though he skipped the first helping of cucumbers and salad offered, calling them “not appetizing” — but couldn’t have seconds on pizza.

Sharing his table, junior Michael Kraft said he goes home for lunch because the school’s offerings “don’t fill me up.”

Sometimes he eats carrots, but generally he eats “whatever I can find” and skips the veggies.

‘Fabulous … but‘

Lofty goals of improving youth eating habits and hard realities of hungry students are colliding in school cafeterias across the state. In Cut Bank, less than half as many students as last year at this time eat school lunch, from an average of 110 to 48.

New USDA school lunch guidelines, part of President Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, require doubling the servings of fruits and vegetables, with less sodium and fat and no meat for breakfast. The rules limit calories, so as First Lady Michelle Obama has said, school lunches don’t undo parents’ efforts to ensure their children eat healthy meals.

The problem, however, is in the limit of protein — meats, cheese, sour cream, yogurt (but not milk) — and grains to 2 ounces each for young children and 3 ounces for high schoolers. The new rules set the minimum at only 1 oz. of protein per meal, said Salley Young, a Montana School Nutrition Association executive board member and food service manager at Greenfield Elementary School.

In rural communities, some students get on the bus at 7:15 a.m., have school all day and then participate in activities in the evening, pushing dinner time to 8 p.m. or later, meaning they need more food than the minimums set, she said.

So what are students left to do if they are going hungry? Make a viral video, of course. That’s what the teens at Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas, decided to do — and it’s been effective.

Those students created a parody of the popular hit “We Are Young” called “We Are Hungry.” It follows a group of high schoolers around school as they struggle to complete classwork, sports, and other tasks because they are too hungry to properly function due to the small and inadequate lunches. It was posted Sept. 17, has over 66,000 views, and has became a rallying cray of sorts:

“There’s just not enough,” Callahan Grund, a 16-year-old football player who is featured in the video, told the Kansas City Star regarding the school lunches.

“When you have chores in the morning and football practice after school, you need energy,” he added, later saying, “This doesn’t cut it.”

Story Behind We Are Hungry Video of Kansas High School Students Mocking School Lunch

US First Lady Michelle Obama eats a turkey taco for lunch while sitting with school children in the cafeteria at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, January 25, 2012. Obama visited the school with celebrity chef Rachael Ray and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to highlight the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) new nutrition standards for school lunches, as schools undertake new efforts to provide healthy food for children. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

But the irony is that the video is not solely the work of the students. In reality, the parody was penned by a local teacher who got upset after she saw a colleague’s Facebook post. The Star explains:

Linda O’Connor, an English teacher at Wallace County High School, penned the “We Are Hungry” parody after a colleague, Brenda Kirkham, posted a photo of her school lunch on Facebook and sparked dozens of outraged comments.

The lunch included one cheese-stuffed bread stick, a small dollop of marinara sauce, three apple slices and some raw spinach. Kirkham supplemented the lunch with items from a salad bar, including cubes of ham, bacon bits and dressing, which were available only to teachers.

“I asked why the sauce had no meat and I was informed that due to the breadsticks containing cheese, the meat would put us over the guidelines for protein,” Kirkham, the teacher, wrote on Facebook.

“Now think of a high school boy who works out at least three hours a day, not including farm work. … I’m furious. The ‘cheese’ inside the breadstick is approximately three bites. This is ridiculous.”

And now many are revolting against the system — even the teachers.

“I have quite a few football guys come in here, and I’m like, ‘Hurry up and eat so it doesn’t get on your project,’ ” Kirkham told the Star. “I mean, they’re starving.

Some legislators are trying to get involved. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican from Kansas, is working with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to repeal the calorie limits in the new lunch legislation adopted in 2010.

“If every member of Congress would actually go into a school cafeteria and take a look at the trash can, they’d see that what sounds good on paper doesn’t always work out like you think,” he told the Star.

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Comments (414)

rsletto
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:58am
even before my daughter was even thought of i knew that i didn’t want any of my children attending public school like i did. its not just this policy its just about every policy in the schools that i don’t agree with especially here in CA. i am glad these kids and teachers are doing something about bad policy.

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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:51am
  I have started responding to all news stories complaining about the schools with…”Are you still sending your kids to the government schools? Shame on you”. I believe we have crossed into parental neglect if you do.
  
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- Strait Talk Express
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:52am
  If it were my athletic children I would provide them with some Gu, PowerBars or Clif Shots or maybe a banana to eat before they start exercising and every thirty minutes while exercising. That’s what I would do.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:26am
  Where’s all the talk of personal responsibility? BRING SOME FOOD WITH YOU!!!
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:48am
  What’s a matter? Not to hot on that “Hope and Change”? What were you thinking? Now that you are on the government dole, you better vote right to keep the “benefits a comin’”.
  
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- OklahomaBound
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:54am
  This seems like a business opportunity, maybe I’ll buy a food truck and park across the street from schools during lunch hour. Of course then Obama would sign another “Executive” Order outlawing the practice like the good little Dictator that he is.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:57am
  MTGIRL…neglect? Really? I make 28K a year to support a family of 5 (working 2 jobs)…where would YOU suggest I get the 4-5k MINIMUM a year it costs to go to ANY private school within 45 minutes of where I live? I know that people who make 60-70K think of themselves as the “average joe” and then spout moronic things like “why are you sending your kids to public school, you should be charged with neglect”…the facts are that there are MILLIONS of Americans that live in poverty that are also conservatives. (p.s. I don’t take ONE DIME of government ass, in ANY form, even though we live 5-6K below the poverty line)
  
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- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:08pm
  This video is very accurate according to what I’ve seen. When I was 13, I was an unusually large kid able to bench press 200 lbs at such a young age. We aren’t all identical, Obama. Some kids need much more food than others. I had to eat two lunches to keep me going through the school day. I had a friend nicknamed “The Moose” who was about 6’5″ and weighed about 200 lbs at 13 years old. Today, many kids aren’t even eating at the school anymore here because the meals are too small. Instead, the kids leave the school during lunch in hordes to grab junk food at nearby convenience stores. Progressive liberals have only worsened the kids’ problems.
  It wasn’t really the food that was the problem in the first place. Think back 40 years ago and recall that all the kids used to run, bicycle, swim, play outdoors. Today, I very rarely see any children outdoors. Aside from the traffic, this city looks like a ghost town compared to 40 years ago. Most kids simply don’t get enough exercise… food isn’t the major problem.
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:39pm
  Newsflash- this is what happens in a dictatorship. I wonder if obamas kids eat this measly menu at their private progressive school.
  
  Oh, i forgot theyre learning to be good little progressives and they can eat anything they want. Theyll know better.
  
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- Wayn007
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:41pm
  Wow, democrasheep, you are a complete and total idiot aren’t you? So we should pay for lunch at the school, plus have to supply extra food because of the obama food police? What a dork.
  
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- GeorgiaMommy
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:46pm
  I totally get what your saying RLETTO ! All 3 of our kids in private schools….it has been years of busting our arse’s to send them….. But worth every penny to know when we let them out in the morning, they are somewhere we trust and if we don’t like something, we can voice it and get something done! If the Govt cant take care of our veterans when they return home, how can we give our kids over to them??
  
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- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Hey, Demo-sheep, from your posts, it’s obvious that you worship Democrats. The government shouldn’t be telling us how much we’re allowed to eat. Did you see that in the Constitution? I didn’t. Just continue agreeing with all things progressive and liberal until you realize the irony of your nickname… you’re still a sheep. You mindlessly agree with all things Democrat. BAAAAAA
  I choose freedom and truth. You’ll eat up whatever Democrats shovel and what you’re eating is supposed to be… exit only.
  
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- DMANFLA
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Please realise that the school lunch program is like all government programs. “You took the money, now you must due what we say.”. It is all about the gov “reimbursement” to stretch the school budget, more on the program means more $$$ for the school in other “programs” Free and reduced lunch applications are handed out like candy at the beginning of the school year, and 65% or more students get accepted (Pinellas co Fl is more, Hillsboro Co, Fl is above 70%). Randomly checked and rarely denied. Several of the parents are seen driving Jags to drop off thier children that qualify for the program. This is the mentality that must be stopped, it is not FREE my taxes pay for this. I am married to a School Cafeteria Manager, dispute me now.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:18pm
  Good satire and So True!!! Well done Kids!!! You will grow up to be good republicans!!!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Get ready for such plans to hit the general public. Emergency rationing. Centrally planned authorities and agencies with federal police power. Welcome to Oceania.
  
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- patzerpatriot
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:57pm
  That’s the way to do it, Mom – tuck your tail between your legs and retreat! WE NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR SCHOOLS, INSTEAD OF ABANDONING THEM!!! FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- Gettysburgians
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 3:21pm
  When private schools start accepting students with special needs, then there will really be school choice. Not everyone wants to use the gov’t education system. Some have no choice.
  
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- midwesthippie
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 4:00pm
  …BANJARMAN…why would any one want to grow up to be a republican? …how about an Independent American who believes in liberty and freedom…
  
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- SadButTrue
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 4:02pm
  @MTCONTRYGIRL: Write the check and I’m sure they will pull their children out of Public school. Most people send their kids to public school because of lack of either time or money. Poverty is NOT synonymous with neglect or abuse! And some schools don’t allow lunches from home, just ask Moochele.
  
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- ERB
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 4:46pm
  SCHOOLING OPTIONS: Because we can’t all aford private school.
  The self teaching cuiculum
  http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 4:59pm
  When they had those kids crawling at the end… I was rolling on the floor! Too f’in funny. SNL, you are so far behind the curve and far from the edge. SNL used to be like this right here, right on the edge serving the man a healthy dose of comedic truth, but now SNL is just the propaganda machine for the GE man.
  
  Great skit, high schoolers just stepped up to paid professionals and served them a plate of low cal tapioca pudding,
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 5:10pm
  @SadButTrue
  
  There are plenty of families that send their kids to public school but choose to spend that money on fancy cars, vacations, and toys (i.e. boats).
  
  These parent that can afford it, should be sending their kids to private education facilities. It does give those kids a leg up.
  
  With those kids exiting the public system, it will reduce public classroom sizes and also reduce food costs. So maybe then kids can actually get a good meal in a public school.
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 5:45pm
  bottom line is: schools shouldn’t be in the food business in the 1st place! just because it’s been done this way for a generation and a half doesn’t make it right. kids should be brown bagging their lunches.it’s parents’ responsibility to nourish their offspring,not the schools/government/taxpayers!
  
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- King4wd
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 6:02pm
  @ExRepublisheep- Have you not seen the plethora of news stories where kids who DID bring lunch to school had it confiscated so they would eat a “properly nutritious” lunch?
  here:
  http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/national/students-lunch-taken-away-for-not-being-nutritious-enough
  and here:
  http://now.msn.com/jenkins-clifton-jones-student-has-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich-confiscated
  are two examples.
  
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- desert ghost
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 6:06pm
  This what happens when a dictator runs a country. You are under their control with everything. Anyone votes for 4 more years of this president will have this. Sad to know ignorance and apathy in this great country may be our own despise. May GOD help us all.
  
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- Capitalist Mama
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 6:24pm
  Remember the stories of schools taking away student’s meals from home?? I imagine there are guidelines to when, where, and what students may eat. For example, no eating in the hallway before school or during non-lunch periods.
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 7:31pm
  Part of the reason why I am part of the 47% of Americans that don’t earn enough to pay taxes (and I’m not an Obama voter, please don’t insult me) is that I don’t send my kids to public school. We homeschool instead, and run a small business out of our home. Our local church has a private school that costs about $50-$100 per month plus books, so it’s not always $4-5K per kid. I personally think that my kids are getting a better education at home though. It has the added benefit of allowing my kids to get the nutrition that they need. They’re both athletes, so I generally have to keep that in mind when figuring out what food they need to eat (and having the understanding that they need a lot of food and seem to always be hungry).
  
  Perhaps this ridiculous food campaign will help some of these kids realize that laws do have consequences, and too much micromanaging can have negative consequences. I had a teachable moment with my kids last year when some town in California passed an anti-Happy Meal law, and they took the toys away from the meals here at one restaurant in Arizona. We rarely eat out, but they still weren’t happy about that.
  
  I’m glad to see that some kids, at least, are speaking out.
  
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- MEANS2RESIST
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:47pm
  Soetoro kids lunch menu @ Friends School in DC
  
  http://www.nyparenting.com/stories/2012/9/fp_wellnessinschoolsside_2012_09.html
  
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- Sosorryforyou
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:00pm
  An active teenager should have a maximum of 3200 calories a day, an inactive one around 1600 calories. 850 Calories for one meal is almost a third of an active teenager’s daily consumption and half of an inactive teenager’s. How many calories do you all think a child needs for one meal? We have an obesity problem with our youth! Feeding an inactive teenager more than half their daily calorie consumption in one meal is more than reasonable. And, if these teens are are still hungry after eating their 850 calorie lunch, then bring a snack from home. I have two extremely active teens (swimmers), and they always bring snacks for after school so that they can refuel before swim practice. They have never complained about the new food choices, and in fact, love the new pizza with whole wheat crust and the “baked” fries. I wouldn’t doubt that these students in this film are just unhappy that their food choices have been transformed from unhealthy fried foods, to healthy, whole foods. I am more than happy to help fund these new, healthy food choices. Makes me feel better knowing my tax payer dollars are no longer going to serving our youth fried, calorie-laden junk food.
  
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- Alessandre
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:19pm
  In many schools parents pay for lunch. These rules aren’t just the lunches the govt covers, they’re for all school lunches in every public school. Read the article, they’re paying .20 – .25 more per meal. But they’re not allowed to go back & buy more food. Neither are they allowed to eat the amount of fat or protein they require – 2 – 3 oz of protein is just ridiculous for a growing child & insufficient fat means the body can’t metabolize fat soluble vitamins. These kids have chores before school & sports during – they need more food. Children have always needed more food but, they’ve also had more physical exercise. These are starvation rations for some of these kids & will affect their ability to do their schoolwork. If they’re allowed to bring their lunches, I’d do so. If not, I’d switch schools (which can be difficult to do in rural areas) or home school (which is my #1 choice anyway though not possible for some).
  
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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 12:59am
  Bet Michelle ran out to the first fast food joint she could find after eating that starvation diet with the kids. Takes a bit more than 850 calories to keep her in motion!! This is beyond insanity! IT IS TORTURE! Have you ever tried just a 1000 calorie diet? They are torturing our children! Shouldn’t the parents be outraged over this??!!
  
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- RWCT
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 2:37am
  Sounds like Michell, and Dept of Agri got their Calorie count from Buchewald/Dachau etc. German diet paln for the Jews, and others in the “WORK” camps!
  
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- hillbillyinny
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:41am
  @ sosorryforyou
  
  The problem with the calories compared to the nutritional content is the TYPE OF FOODS SERVED! ONE OUNCE OF PROTEIN is not enough for any growing child above the age of eight!!!
  
  We substitute CHEAP CARBOHYDRATES for good proteins, good veggies and good fruits. If these children were being served a good source of meat/dairy/fish/or egg protein (up to four ounces), NOT FRIED (as in a “fried one-once cheese stick”!), with good vegetables, a slice of whole wheat bread, and fruit slices, with a snack mid-morning and mid afternoon, they would have both the FUEL TO COMPETE and reasonable calories for the NUTRITION DENSE food they would be eating!
  
  Put the fryer away, get the breading off of the cheese, and get rid of anything white (potatoes, rice, white bread).
  
  But good eating is more expensive, however, since it is nutrition dense, you WILL eat less!
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 6:33am
  i have to ask, what idiot decided that anything obama’s wife says is law or mandatory in any way???
  
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- Silver Lining
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:28am
  @Slaptheleft – since you asked… today’s lunch menu at Sidwell Friends School is listed as the following:
  
  Lentil Spinach Soup
  Panzanella Salad
  Bulghur Chick Pea Salad
  Shaved Roast Beef
  Breaded Eggplant
  with Marinara Sauce
  Roasted Autumn Vegetables
  Lemon Herb Risotto
  Sliced Pineapple
  
  Tomorrow BBQ chicken sliders are on the menu…and they had a choice of 3 different kinds of pizza the other day.
  
  Of course, this is a private school, and the mommies and daddies pay dearly for it, which is their right and privilege. That said, I wonder if Michelle make the girls carry lunch from home to avoid all of those calories and carbs. Seriously, there is already an abundance of carbs in the bulghur, the chickpeas, and the breading on the eggplant…why are they also serving risotto? You would think they would at least serve the eggplant stewed, as in ratatouille. Do you think the White House chef packs up a measured amount of tuna in a pita (whole wheat, of course) and a couple of carrot sticks? I also wonder if Michelle stops by the school store to sample the tasty treats offered there? From their website: “The Fox Den Cafe and School Store offers a variety of drinks, baked goods, and snacks, as well as Sidwell Friends clothing, gifts, and school supplies. Parents, faculty, staff, students, and alumni are welcome to enjoy Bethesda Bagels and pastries from Uptown Bakery delivered fresh daily.”
  
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- ChelzNH
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:32am
  For those of you who comment that parents who are upset with the public schools should just homeschool or go to private school remember this. 1-88 kids today are diagnosed with autism. That does not include the other diagnosed learning disabilities. Most of these kids require speech/language or occupational therapies especially at the early elementary ages to help them learn how to be successful in school. Private schools do not accept, nor do they provide such therapies. If these parents homeschool, they also cannot access these therapies. So then the comment would be, why don’t you just pack a lunch from home? We what do parents in the school district in Chicago that has banned home packed meals do? I think we as parents need to take more control back from our public schools and let the government know that it’s none of their business what our children eat! As parents it is our responsibility!
  
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- SeaCrow
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:35am
  Just read Atlas Shrugged and look for the passages featuring Ma Chalmers, the second-rater apparatchik promoting soybeans as the perfect food for everybody. Ayn Rand as the Prophet of Profit forsaw many of the nightmarish aspects of PC and liberal fascism we see today.
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:19am
  0 cannot be re-elected! PLEASE-FOR THE CHILDREN…0′s agenda for ALL schools is called “Common Core”. “When these dangerous initatives are implemented, there will be NO escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving, home schooling, or private schools.
  
  The story about this is at http://www.trevorloudon.com/2012/09/terrorist-professor-bill-ayers-and-obamas-federal-school-curriculum/ THIS INFO NEEDS TO GET OUT to EVERYONE. They will be using our own children against us more than they are now. It is all planed out for radical revolution.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Just like Michelle to start a healthy school lunch program when kids are already going hungry at HOME because of her cold, narcissitic hubby’s economic DEPRESSION. The kids are hungry!!! Let them eat a good sized meal of what may be their best meal of the day. Stupid woman. She’s not going hungry.
  I went to public school and we ate GOOD. I found an old, very thin school menu from elementary school in the NISD in San Antonio Here’s what we ate and I always made honor roll because I wasn’t tired or HUNGRY. Reagan was President with Nancy as first lady who NEVER interfered with what we ate in school. God Bless Nancy Reagan.
  On Wednesdays (Mexican Food Day!!) October 1985, lunch cost= $1.10 per tray.
  
  Choice of Cheese Enchiladas or
  Crispy Beef Tacos, with/
  A hunk of sweet cornbread,
  pinto beans, milk or fruit juice,
  and applesauce for dessert.
  Those were the days!! And the teachers got two trays, if I remember correctly. Those enchiladas rocked!
  
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- Female
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Athletes and PE students should be given a CARB card. Males should be given one meal fit for them. Also, calories needed are weight, height, and growth spurt specific
  
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 12:44pm
  @Shiroi Raion
  
  “Instead, the kids leave the school during lunch in hordes to grab junk food at nearby convenience stores.”
  
  But you know they’ll never admit that
  
  I remember something recently about a kindergardener having a turkey sandwich taken away and given chicken nuggets instead. Pretty pathetic.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 1:14pm
  @rsletto
  “i am glad these kids and teachers are doing something”
  
  Funny, whenever a video comes out of teachers and students doing or saying anything pro-Obama, Cons cry “indoctrination” and call for the teachers to be fired. But kids and teachers in a red state making an anti-Obama video, that’s “patriotism”? Hmm. p.s. Hope you all have fun giving your kids their insulin shots, because getting diabetes is God-given right, and no Kenyan Muslim is gonna take away your rights.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 1:42pm
  @vanceuppercut
  Libs hate the taste of their own medicine. Bitter and disgusting isn’t it. Imagine, athletic growing kids protesting the First Wookie’s creation of healthy lunches that equal the caloric intake of her first WH brewed latte in the morning. Perhaps, they should bow to her for the little they get. Maybe a thank you card campaign is in order, if they could just stay away and focus off a 300 calorie lunch. Thank You Great Wookie for the tablespoon of organic corn niblets!!! Oh, thank you!!!
  
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 1:42pm
  @VanceUppercut
  
  When MOOCHelle is clearly stating one thing but in the name of the other.
  
  Yeah, we’ll spout off about it.
  
  Oh the contradicting say one thing but trying to do another?
  
  Simple: She is lowering the calorie count because it SAVES MONEY AND people will go elsewhere if they think they can afford it or choose to, therefore, saves the government MONEY to spend on other things and at the same time proclaim SEE? We starve, because we care…
  
  Oh I agree, saving money is a good thing, but she’s doing it to help hubby blow more money on their real pet projects.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 2:24pm
  SOSORRY…you obviously have NO IDEA (AT ALL) of the nutrition requirements for a highschool kid…the MINIMUM is about 2200-2500 JUST TO SUSTAIN SKELETAL GROWTH! An active HS kid needs closer to 5000! I am a personal trainer and played college football. I specialize in HS and college athletes and if you think an inactive teen needs under 2K then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stay away from children and NEVER give them eating advice
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Where does a FLOTUS get the power to mandate anything? She is not an elected official, nor a member of Congress!
  
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- Godfather.1
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:22pm
  @Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  
  She didn’t mandate it, it was a law passed by Congress and signed by the President. Of course, you will never hear that on TheBlaze. Instead, they will just lie and tell you that it “Moochelle’s” mandate to try and take your kids away and turn them into communists. By the way, this law passed with a unanimous vote in the senate — meaning, yes, Republicans voted for it too, and it passed the House with a 264-157 vote. It appears to me this law had pretty overwhelming support.
  
  But again, this is TheBlaze where the agenda has no truth.
  
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- FoxholeAtheist
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:56am
  I thought teachers were a bunch of union thugs who’s only goal was to promote liberalism. Guess when the tables are turned, you approve of them taking a political stand.
  
  You’re a hypocrite of the worst kind.
  
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- Riccy102
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:13am
  @ Rsletto
  
  Ditto. My kids attended public school as I did, but my grandchildren wil not.
  
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- Democraps
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:32am
  After a day of reading rewritten history books and teachers paid not to teach I’m surprised our youth can swallow anything more anyway. Besides we all need to be prepared for our limited daily bread and water so we can redistribute (donate) our hard earned booty to the hate America crowd filling their coffers with the weaponry and explosives they so desperately need to finish dismantling our fantasy of freedom and superiority leaving us satisfied after all. At least the progressives will be satisfied, filled with abundance stolen from us and our youth. But at every turn we let them, we buy into their politically correct spiel, we make it easy for them, we hand them everything and then feel bad when they demand more.
  Screw them! Stand up for yourself and your children! To heck with politically correctness! VOTE! VOTE them out! Hold them responsible, try them for any crimes and jail them! Treason, conspiracy, theft, child abuse. Enough is enough, I’m tired of being sucker punched, be proactive, punch first, faster, harder and more this Nov. Bring others, power in numbers, restore the pride and power in America again! You do this and our children won’t go hungry again!
  
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sndrman
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:56am
rules of controlling used by cults and other controlling entities….
1-lack of food,it takes away your will to fight back because you have no energy.
2-lack of sleep
3-repetitive messages,Ex: indoctrinating,what’s happening in schools,not teaching but indoctrination….
GET IT? control the teens before they can think for themselves and you control the next generation……

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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:11am
  Schools sure have changed -Hey man i need a fix…
  Can you hook me up with a candy bar and a soda.
  
  What’s next Big-Mac sniffing dogs checking lockers.
  
  Maybe the First Lady should concern herself with prisoners ,
  that are that are on death row and are to obese to execute .
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:25am
  To the point and you got it because that’s exactly what’s happening in modern day so called free America.
  
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- Shari912
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:45am
  Agree 100%. I would also ask what effect extreme calorie restriction has on developing brain and body.
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:48am
  Central planners are NEVER wrong! Jot it down on a peice of paper in the faculty lounge, and it will work. (sarcasm)
  
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- Claudius
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:56am
  Totally agree. It seems like a bad move for the Obamas who are “supposeably” after the youth vote. Just got out of high school and that last year was a food nightmare. They kept replacing the french fries with sweet potato fries which all ended up in the garbage since no one wants to eat nasty food.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:51am
  As a long time personal trainer who has had LOTS of experience with HS and College football players, I advise ALL my HS athletes to consume between 3500 and 5000 calories DAILY…with the 850 cap, that leaves 3000-4000 calories that must be consumed elsewhere. I’m not even taking this from a big government perspective, this is just BAD policy. Your average BIG breakfast (and how many working families do YOU know that have the time or money to a big morning meal for their kids EVERY SINGLE DAY) is only 500-600 calories, leaving them with OVER 2000 calories they have to try and eat at dinner. Whoever put this program together knows VERY little about teenage nutrition.
  
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- baxtersmom
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:54pm
  I heard on red-eye that they are testing middle schoolers for performance enhancing drugs. Not just athletes but drama and band students. Start this stuff early enough and they won’t object to invasive searches and invasions of privacy when they are adults. I guess they are trying to create a skinny army of mind numbed robots.
  
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- DMANFLA
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:13pm
  WOW. How true when you put it all together.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:18pm
  I think if goes deeper than most people think. I believe that Michelle Obama is a hateful person, a racist for sure. She makes no bones about the fact that she hates whitey. And, to go one step further, she is trying to starve their kids. She wants them all to know what it is like to be hungry, just like most of the ghetto kids have known. She wants to get “even”.
  
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- freedomnetworker
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:10pm
  The beginning of the end of our country is when they changed how they teach us so they could brainwash us. Please pass this video on so that others can learn. From what I understand , i was made in 1948: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVBroKj6W4&feature=share&list=UUoraMikfXRAM1iETaLFPEsQ
  
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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:25pm
  Exactly my thoughts when I first read this article!!! The scariest part is how many don’t see it or understand it!!! Thank you for expressing it!!!
  
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- pantokrator
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 5:41pm
  “He who controls the youth, gains the future.”
  
  -Adolf Hitler.
  
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- westtitus
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:26pm
  We all need to look at Michelle’s past, she was caught patient dumping at the hospital she worked at and it is all about the MONEY! She is an awlful person and does not have the RIGHT to change anything in the school system. They both have got to go NOW or we are all in big trouble!
  
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- 1389AD
  Posted on September 27, 2012 at 5:56am
  Exactly.
  
  The cult leader and his/her chosen inner circle are, of course, subject to no rules whatsoever.
  
  http://1389blog.com/2012/09/26/we-are-hungry-americas-kids-rebel-against-moochelles-stingy-school-lunches/
  
  http://1389blog.com/2012/08/20/now-this-is-disgusting-16/
  
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khadijahbintmuhammad
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:56am
Look at the bright side. In less than five years, this will be the first college class in recent memory to vote overwhelmingly libertarian.

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- getitgotitgood
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:32am
  wrong brain dead people do what they are told to do by the loudest voice
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:54am
Another SOARING success story brought to you by the grand wizard of big
government, our very own marxist-in-chief and his not-ready-for-prime-time sidekick
wife. When are you going to put a STOP to this America?

Schools SHOULD NOT be a lab experiment or indoctrination camps for the
progressive radicals agenda.

You PAY for these schools. REQUIRE they do their job of teaching, and for
GOD’s sake get rid of this bird-brained North Korean style government diet control.
Kids need more than 850 calories.

Send you kid to school with a packed lunch that they will eat and enjoy and
DARE any school administrator to say anything about it.

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- GwenieSue
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:17am
  After hearing my kids complain about being hungry every day, I looked at the school menu… Starting Monday they will be taking their lunch to school.
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:52am
  One of my best memories in elementary school was that my buddy Clark and I both had moms that packed our brown bag school lunches. Clark’s mom unknown to me at the time was actually the superintendent of the entire 4A school system…but she also cooked bacon every morning and Clark’s lunch always had several strips of bacon in it. My mom was peanut butter and jelly person and so that explains right away the contents of my lunch. EVERY single day Clark and I would trade sandwiches. He snarfed down my PB&J and I wolfed down his bacon lettuce sandwich. I always thought I got the better end of that deal. It all came to a horrific end though when I stupidly asked my mother to trim the crusts off the sandwich bread just like “Clark’s mom did”……and I ratted myself out by revealing that Clark and I traded sandwiches every day. From that point forward…I was stuck with PB&J and Clark was stuck eating his bacon sandwich….until it dawned on me….if I get a paper route and earn some loot…I could then buy tator tots at lunch time in school….yes I believed for years that my intermediate school in Texas actually invented Tator Tots as my mom never bought them. But the paper route solved the problem……I could give Clark my PB&J…..buy my own Tater Tots….and from that point forward I knew earning money would always allow me to make choices I might not otherwise be able to make. To this day I love Tator Tots….and bacon.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:54am
Let’s face it, Michelle Obama does not care about HEALTH – she only cares about CONTROL – so, children are starving and their health is being imperiled by Big Mo’s stupid plan – Why should she care? She’s FAT and happy in her castle, busy machinating about what she and her husband can destroy next – they are sworn enemies of America.

If we are to survive as a nation, obama and his not-really-proud-of-America woman MUST BE REMOVED from power. A second obama term IS NOT AN OPTION.

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- Wolf
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:55am
  Seriously- one look at her lard azz and we know she’s not following her own guidelines, which probably means niether her whelp nor bat-ears is, either.
  
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:54am
On the socialist plantation….you eat what the government says you can eat. Now shut up, sit down, and eat your food like a good little servant. Isn’t the socialist utopia great? Maybe Mrs. Obama just needs to explain things better so that the dummy kids out there can realize it is in their best interest to be hungry at school. Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama. Just think how 4 more years of this…and MUCH, MUCH, MORE….. will be if he gets elected again. I can’t wait till the administration has to literally whip the slaves into compliance when they start grumbling too much.

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- LetThereBeLight
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:47am
  Right, most people aren’t exactly “getting” the connection of the socialistic/communistic indoctrination that is being shoved down America’s throat! We better wake up fast! There is absolutely ZERO discernment about what is being mirrored here! Even if we scream, it seems to land on completely deaf ears….. “for those who have ears to hear”…..
  
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- iblvingd
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:53pm
  Yep the Re-education camps will be full in no time.
  
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- Ivan in Phoenix
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:42pm
  This is how North Korea does their food rationing too. Now 98% are dieing from starvation.
  
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anniegtyrgun
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:53am
Reason 789 to home school, Michelle can’t starve my kids.

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catscan
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:51am
Who appointed this ugly woman to the position of Czar of feeding our children? What are here qualifications? Get rid of her ASAP and start feeding the kids normally. ‘A dab of cheese filling in a cheese stick equates with the meal’s protein allowance?’ What rotgut is that? These kids are growing by the minute. We’ll never know how much physical damage has been done to their development by this overbearing woman, and by the looks of her rump, she’s the one who should cut the calories.

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- jcldwl
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:06am
  Just an example of what our future holds. Communism will lead to food rationing. They know it and are getting the youth indoctrinated in it now. Of course the ones making the rules can eat like pigs day long Moochelle with her 1500 calorie sandwiches and her sidekick constantly being pictured stuffing his face with giant cheeseburgers and downing a beer. Rise up kids and take back your freedom to eat what you want.
  
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razhunter100
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:49am
these kids must be racists…/sarc.

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Singinjeannie
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:47am
Our school lunches are generally disgusting. They used to be good, but have greatly gone down-hill. Now most days my kids do it the old-fashioned way. They pack. I feel better knowing what they are eating.

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- Tractorboy
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 3:54pm
  Don’t get used to sending that poison to school for “Your” children, eventually the practice of brown bagging it will not be tolerated, or if your child does require a special diet, you will have to get a prescription from a nutritionist and you will have to drive the lunch to school everday and take it to the nurses office so she can feed your child.
  
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Meng3
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:45am
I don’t even want to imagine what would happen to my diabetic son if he had to eat this way. He has to have much more protein than that to keep from having lows after eating. Fortunately for him, we homeschool.

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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Sorry, MENG3, but your son is one of those that this administration doesn’t care about and wants to eliminate. Remember the controversy over the death panels under Obamacare? The ultimate designed desire is complete control and elimination of those that they can. Prayers, love, and best wishes to you, your son, and your family. Hold your head up and fight and do what you have to do. We have GOT to vote Obama out of office in November, but we’ve also got to clean house of so many others and not put his like-minded or controlled minions into office in November. WAKE UP AMERICA. CLEAN UP THE WHITE HOUSE, SENATE, AND HOUSE of those sympathetic to Obama. WE MUST SURVIVE AND PREVAIL!!!!!
  
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Angel_light
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:43am
OH Sure you charge more, but give less food? there are no words strong enough to describe how insanely stupid this is. and 850 is NOT healthy for growing kids especially the athletes. MOOchelle has no common sense what-so-ever. I feel bad for her kids if they have to go through that. and regulations like these only teach kids to be sneaky; hence the “black market” chocolate syrup…

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- greywolf27
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:05am
  I’m quite sure HER kids are eating high on the hog, just like their mom. I don’t picture Moochelle eating her dietary nightmares without letting her daughters live high on the government dollar as well. Its just the rest of us that have to be paupers. Let them eat nothing!
  
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Zombee
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:39am
Moochele is just preparing today’s youth to live under under her husbands communistic banana republic that he his fundamentally transforming our country into . A life similar to the former Soviet Union and Cuba; with empty grocery shelves ,equal misery, starvation, mediocrity, undernourishment, alcoholism, potatoes and vodka.

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- turkey13
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:58am
  Michelle Obama is trying to prepare us for the hard times coming. These kids don’t know what starving is! If Obama is re-elected they will find out real fast. We are one of the few countries that is burning our food in our cars. Here in Oklahoma everyone has sold their cows after 2 years of drout. Corn and grains have tripled in price and after buying hay and grains you can’t even break even. My sons have leased their grazing for $12,000 and the hunting rights for $10,000 to 4 lawyers. They signed up for CRP from the Government that pays you not to grow crops. They also just signed up for a Dept of agricultural program to bulldoze trees to make more pasture land. This will be the first time in 3 years, their ranch will make a profit.
  
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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:08pm
  @turkey13, I understand what you’re saying, and I do agree with much, but not all of your comment. True, nobody in this country, more than just the kids, has any idea what starving or struggle are about, and if Obama isn’t defeated, we may all find out quickly. Hubby and I are in the ranching business and are still trying to hang on to a starter herd of cattle and goats, after at least 6 years of drought. Granted, we’ve had one good year with rain and another semi year, but that doesn’t end the drought for any of us in the overall. Everything is tripling in price, especially feed and food since corn is a foundation of livestock, pet, and human food products. Government design is in full force to force us to rely on them for our existence, and to rob us of our freedoms. I hate the CRP program. I hate most subsidy programs under the Farm Bill, which 80% of funds the food stamp program. Hubby and I will make it or not on our own decision and merit, if we can. And, keeping our school kids hungry depletes their ability to learn, reason, and think for themselves, so GUESS WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING?!?!?!?!? Romney/Ryan 2012 !!!!
  
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GoodCook
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:39am
No KId hungary Act = starving KIds
Affordable Health Care Act = unaffordable health care
With family premiums rising 250 a month it’s causing families to choose between food and Government mandated health care taxes meaning they lack the ability to buy food at ever increasing costs. Foods that cost more because of even more unneeded Government regulations. Thus even more starving kids. These people believe in cradle to grave socialism. If you make it to the cradle ( ie abortion) then they’ll tell you when you’re going to the grave ( ie bureucrats with holding treatment because of costs and age). Wake up old people your too expensive to keep alive and don’t add monies to the collective so off you go to the funeral pyre. Oh yeah, there’s a regulation against that because of pollution and the rising cost of gas.
When are you going to figure out that these people are arrogant incompetent morons. Give me the Mormon over the moron in chief.

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- chiquita
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 2:37pm
  Bravo!!!!! YES!!!
  
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randy
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:35am
Whaddya wanna bet this little act of terrorism will go and stay on everyone of these kids school transcripts…… Yes, I said terrorism because we all know, if you don’t agree with the Obamas, you’re labeled a racist and or terrorist.

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Chromo200
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:33am
Why worry about this ..After Obama’s reelection we parents will be punished and may have our kids taken away from us if they don’t start loosing weight according Michelle Obama. And the people who voted for Obama will be happy that they will not have to deal with their children.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:41am
  The 0bama Youth. Hmmmm, hasn’t something like that happened before?
  
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biohazard23
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:32am
I explained to my kids that thanks to Moochelle, the milk they and their friends liked to drink was replaced with the watery skim variety that none of them will drink. There are now a lot of 5th graders who are peeved about government interference with their lunch choices. And there are an awful lot of healthy garbage cans in the cafeteria thanks to all of that “good for you” food being thrown away each and every day.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:40am
  BIOHAZARD23, It amazes me that our government will bend over backwards almost double to feed the EPWs at GITMO to the point that their near sedentary life styles are allowing them to get fat. Moochelle’s diet would work better there than starving school children to the point that they have to go and raid convenience stores for junk just to fill their empty bellies. And, to continue with their extra curricular athletics without collapsing. Geez, these are the people that if they controlled our clothing, can you imagine what their one size fits all attitude would do? About 80% of us would be wearing fig leaves…if it was legal.
  
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- RationalHuman
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:41am
  Moochele? Apart from how insulting and non-factual that is, “conservatives” claim to love fiscal responsibility, so I’ll put it to you this way. The obesity epidemic in this country is overwhelming our health system, and the first lady is trying to do something about it by changing regulations in schools, regulations that previously counted pizza and french fries as vegetables. That’s a step forward in my eyes. You can keep feeding your fat-ass kids processed foods at home if you want them to die of heart disease, and get diabetes along with an alarming number of Americans …wait…let me speak your language…”freedom from socialism, small government, moochers, bootstraps”
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:41am
  Hey Girl,
  
  Just a quick hello….I’ve gotta run.
  
  This is infuriating! Be sure to pack lots of cheese sticks in the backpacks!
  
  Moochelle surely isn’t missing any meals and I have no doubt her meals contain a minimum of 3,000 calories.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:48am
  RATIONALHUMAN, Ahhh, the old “Good Intentions” trick, eh?
  
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- khadijahbintmuhammad
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:59am
  “RationalHuman” (not), let’s not forget that these kids aren’t being given fresh vegetables sauteed with olive oil and garlic and oregano. They’ve been fed CANNED BEANS, CANNED PEAS, CANNED CORN, CANNED CARROTS…….and canned vegetables, to put it kindly, taste like ****.
  
  You’ve taken away food they like, replaced it with food that even YOU wouldn’t eat, and you’re blaming them.
  
  Pathetic. And Irrational.
  
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- sWampy
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:05am
  IlRationalSubHuman, we didn’t have a obesity problem, or a hunger problem, until the retarded liberals started paying people to not work, and providing them with free junk food, money for pot, subsidizing their housing, paying their electric bills, and buying them cell phones. Now sadly due to awful policies thrown on us by the liberals, the obesity rate, the poverty rate, the literacy rate, and even the number of children going to sleep hungry has skyrocketed. If you ****** would just stay home, smoke your fatties and leave running the place to those with a brain they would would be a much happier, better educated, and more equitable place.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:16am
  SWAMPY, Not to mention all of those lawsuits against playground equipment. Can’t play most games like dodge ball, red rover, etc while at recess. They have forced children to be sedentary, then blame the kids and their parents. Football, baseball and other school related athletic activities are being castigated. I guess track and field will be next. It’s become more like government forced obesity.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:17am
  Morning, all!
  
  @IrrationalHuman, bless your little heart, dear…. Nice how you ASSume my kids are fat. I guess since some people will not make healthy choices for their children, EVERYONE should be told what their kids can be fed at school? Don’t think so. And what’s the point in having all of that healthy food if the kids are just throwing it away? But since you’re a small-minded liberal who has no problem with wasting tax payer money, you would naturally be OK with it. So much for your healthy kids and preventing obesity. They’re just going hungry instead.
  
  Good job, MOOCHELLE and your idiot liberal mentality.
  
  And yes she IS a heifer. If the FCOTUS (First Cow of the US) is the picture of healthy living, then I’m a Victoria’s Secret supermodel.
  
  Have a nice day!
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 10:56am
  RationalHuman:
  All very interesting. What puzzles me (though perhaps you can explain) is that the government is running Public Service spots all over the nation urging people to sign on with WIC and/or various food programs. We are told *constantly* that there are:
  “12.4 million children in the U.S. that live in food-insecure households and go to bed hungry.” (http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-children-go-to-sleep-hungry-every-night-in-america)
  “there are 15639000 children who go hungry everynight.” ( http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_children_go_hungry_every_night)
  and etc.
  So. We have one government hand insisting that children are underfed and hungry, and the other (wearing Dior) insisting that we have ‘an epidemic of childhood obesity’. I can think of no better example of schizophrenic Central State Control run amok.
  This another example of the Feds intruding on, and asserting control over a matter that should be left to the local school boards, run by the local citizens
  
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piper60
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:31am
The Food Police……..they’re from the government, and they’re here to “help”.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:31am
Moochelle is putting our students on the Bangladesh diet. Nothing like the FDA forcing a third world problem upon the nation’s schools. I guess that is a learning experience.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:34am
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZZ96J_PVbk
  
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Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:30am
The governments “one size fits all” attitude. Restrict the caloric intake of a 200 lb athlete to the same level as a 80 lb non-athletic girl. I would say that we are going to see a bunch of lunch truck type of businesses that cater to high schools appearing soon but I am sure that the Federal government will pass a law making that illegal.

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:54am
  Yep, just like prohibition, these kids will open a black market in the hallways and out in the parking lots. For the parents complaining – if you voted for Obama, get in the back seat and shut your pie holes. Better yet, get into the trunk.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 8:14am
  These kids can bring anything they want to school for lunch. Why are conservatives looking for someone else to blame for their physical. emotional, spiritual and financial weakness?
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:29am
Stupid. stupid, stupid government interference. Teenagers burn through calories if they are involved in sports. Here is a hard fact, obesity is tied to poverty, in a huge way. Think about what is cheapest to buy-boxed mac and cheese and other boxed foods and fatty stuff is cheaper than meat and veggies and fruit. Ask anyone who has gone on a diet and they will tell you it’s more expensive to diet than eat “regular” food.

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- RationalHuman
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:43am
  Who do you think are most reliant on school lunches….lower income families. If you have the money, you’re not forced to eat fewer calories, you can just pack your lunch, or buy more than one serving at lunch.
  
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- Angel_light
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 9:12am
  you are absolutely correct. when I was dieting it cost me more money to buy the food on the diet. now that I’m a little more tight on money (and gave up said diet out of laziness) I have packed on the pounds. It was the opposite way back when in like colonial times, when you didn’t have a lot of money you were thin and frail. and when you saw a fairly chunky person it meant that they were wealthy. boy how things have changed…
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 11:06pm
  @RationalHuman….you know I read your first post on this page and sort of just sat there for a second…not suspicious but wary nonetheless because your first post just had this “rigged” flavor and sound to it…but now after reading this second post of yours…I bet you don’t even have any school aged kids. The “low income” kids you raise up as your poster children..American poster children who I might add NEVER look like children from Somalia or some other wretched starving country where REAL starvation occurs.But if you had school aged children you would know full well that most lower income kids not only eat free lunches but also free breakfasts these days. Welfare mommy and daddy(assuming he is even in the picture) but welfare mommy can’t even wake up and put a bowl of cereal in front of her own kids. The school has taken over the feeding function of the parents. Which is not going to last long if all the First Heifer can come up with are canned carrots and other canned boring food. Through ALL of this M-F two times a day meal feeding of the welfare kids ALL through the 9 month school year…does anyone for one minute think that that families food stamp allotment during those school months is adjusted to reflect the kids are being fed at school 10 of the 15 meals every Monday through Friday? Of course not the school lunch and breakfast programs do not communicate with the local welfare offices at all in that way. All part of your big government cow. Moo.
  
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- mjmaverick
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 7:18am
  It is called exercise. Run 3 miles every night, eat your normal food in sane amounts and you will not pack on pounds. It really does not cost much to not be fat. Such rational as “it costs too much to be thin” is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
  
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- Redwood Elf
  Posted on September 26, 2012 at 4:08pm
  I say we need to make a compilation of songs about food and make a “feed me” album…songs like:
  
  “Feed Me Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors.
  “Feed My Frankenstein” – Alice Cooper
  “Milkshake” – Kelis
  
  and so on.
  
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momrules
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:29am
I am a 100 lb. woman and that lunch menu would starve even me.

This is what happens when *experts* get involved in our lives. They live on studies and how a lab rat might respond. Michelle O is NOT who I want telling me how to live, eat, look or think.

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- Chromo200
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:48am
  get used to it after Nov she will have a free hand to “guide” your life not only at school and public places but also inside your own home.
  
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bpodlesnik
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:25am
That was actually funny, and a solid jab at the government (and Mrs. Obama) for trying to control what and how much we eat.

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kickagrandma
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:20am
This is AWESOME!!!

You go, kids!!!!

This must go viral.

HOORAY for our youth!!!

The obama -BUSTERS are here!!!!!

Take that obama users! Right in the calorie counter.

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:25am
  “little Socialists in training” are complaining!!! My goodness; where are the ‘food police’ to cart them off.
  
  Teaching moment to show the ‘yutes’ of America what Washington Intereference in you life is like; hits you in the ‘gut’…..LOL
  
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- iblvingd
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:59pm
  I hope the intelligent people behind this video are also on the ball enough to not let the progressive agenda be taught (brainwashed) in their school. The hope that there still are people who want to live in a free America.
  
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wingedwolf
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 8:16am
LOLOLOLOL!!! Good for these creative kids! Love it!

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