Massachusetts Outlaws School Bake Sales
- Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:11pm by
Becket Adams
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In an effort to better control the nutritional intake of their constituent’s children, Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a ban on school bake sales.
“At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called ‘competitive’ foods — those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, holiday parties and treats dished out to reward academic achievement,” Laurel J. Sweet and Chris Cassidy write for the Boston Herald.
“But state officials are pushing schools to expand the ban 24/7 to include evening, weekend and community events such as banquets, door-to-door candy sales and football games.”
So if your kid goes to school in Massachusetts and they need to raise a quick buck, unless they can figure out a way to market wholesome awesomeness like apples and bananas, they can pretty much rule out selling foodstuffs.
Watch the New England Cable News update (via the Herald).
Unsurprisingly, some people are unhappy with the state’s new regulations.
“If you want to make a quick $250, you hold a bake sale,” Sandy Malec, vice president of the Horace Mann Elementary School PTO in Newtonville, told the Boston Herald.
“The goal is to raise money,” said Maura Dawley of Scituate, MA. “You’re going to be able to sell pizza. You’re not going to get that selling apples and bananas. It’s silly.”
Another resident and School Committeeman weighed in:
My concern is we’re regulating what people can eat, and I have a problem with that. I respect the state for what they’re trying to do, but I think they’ve gone off the deep end. I don’t want someone telling me how to do my job as a parent. … Is the commonwealth of Massachusetts saying our parents are bad parents?
Proponents of the measure disagree.
“We’re not trying to get into anyone’s lunch box,” Dr. Lauren Smith, Massachusetts Departments of Public Health and Education medical director, told the Herald.
“We know that schools need those clubs and resources. We want them to be sure and have them, but to do them a different way. We have some incredibly innovative, talented folks in schools who are already doing some impressive things, who serve as incontrovertible evidence that, yes, you can do this, and be successful at it,” she added.
Sen. Susan Fargo (D-MA), claims the bake sale ban is necessary because the child obesity crisis has reached “crisis” proportions, according to the Herald.
“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,” Fargo said. “But this is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life.”
Front page photo source: Cake Power blog
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Comments (172)
THX-1138
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:39pmPerhaps my favorite political quote of all time…
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Report Post »– C. S. Lewis
So Cal Tea
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:44pmLook at this idiot blaming bake sales for childhood obesity… That’s like blaming Ford for DUI accidents. People there to support the organization, already made their donation. Just try selling apples in front of a Target or Walmart to random people…… what a DS ******* this guy is….. blame everyone, but the parents. Liberal = No personal responsibility
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:45pmVery very true and one of my favorites as well
Report Post »JadeFor Freedom
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:58pmAmen, amen, amen. This is one of my favorites!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:20pmYou have to wonder about the “morality” of these busy bodies.. In early 2009, corporations like Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Sodexo and Tyson Foods wrote and sponsored “food safety” bills which, according to critics; hand control and policing of food to factory farms and corporations. They point out that bills impose industrial, anti-farming “standards” to independent farms. Also, that they subject those who do not use chemicals and fertilizers to severe penalties, which apply even to producers growing food for their own consumption. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: HR 875 [29] was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband (Stanley Greenburg) works for Monsanto. According to critics, the bill includes criminalization of seed banking, prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers; 24 hour GPS tracking of their animals and warrentless government entry. [30], [31] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:28pmA Bake Sale DOES NOT Violate the Rights of the People that “Vote” to Ban it, Therefore this BAN is 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!!!!!
How much longer are we going to Allow this Corporation that calls itself our “government” pi$$ on our Rights ???????
This guy explains brilliantly in 3 minutes Why this BAN is Unconstitutional !!!!
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
NHwinter
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:58pmGreat link, thank you, ProbIemSoIver
Report Post »Able Witness
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:01pmThank you so much for the C. S. Lewis quote.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:17pm@NHWINTER
My Pleasure.
For those who have passed it up, it explains how the Constitution was designed to protect the 49% from the will of the 51%.
99% of the people can NOT, Under ANY condition, take away the Constitutional Rights of the 1%.
You have the Right to do ANYTHING you want, provided that you don‘t violate another person’s Constitutional Rights !!!!
It is that simple !!!!
Eating Baked goods laced with Fat and Sugar is my Right, unless it violates your rights !!!!!!
The Founding Fathers Hated Democracy and thought it was the worst form of government there was.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:28pmTHX-1138 you said it all brother.
Report Post »Critical Thinker
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:48pmWell said.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:58pmWonder if this is to help pay “Romney Care” ?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:13pm@PROBLEMSOLVER……Spot on with your post…Its time to ignore the liberals who hate happiness
Report Post »booger71
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:21pmThe of Mass are reaping the benefits of their legislature.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:35pmIn short, there is nothing worse than a busy-body do-gooder.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 8:00pmWhen Bake Sales are outlawed
Only Outlaws will have Bake Sales
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 8:30pmWhat is America coming to? I am sick and tired of our know-it-all “leaders” from the top down dictating what we can and can’t do, what we can and can’t say, what we can and can’t purchase for our homes, what we can and can’t drive on the road, what we can and can’t eat…
Is this thanks to Michelle Obama and her “nutrition” quest? Once government controls health care, they’ll try to control every aspect related to “health care”… This is just the beginning.
Perhaps some of these Moms should just get together and IGNORE this outrageous rule!
We’re supposed to be the Home of the Brave and the Land of the FREE!!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 8:34pm@McDave
Absolutely. Keep up the great work vs. the MSM, in the info war.
You have taken the Red Pill and seen how far the rabbit hole goes.
Most people still can’t see behind the Left/Right politician paradigm curtain.
The Re-education Camps are to rehabilitate people to the fact that America was sold in 1992 (The same year the U.N.’s Agenda 21 emerged), and is managed by the United Nations.
http://www.rense.com/general86/nomis.htm
The Foreign Investors that bought America want us “Squatters” off their land.
You know the one’s that “cling to their Bibles and Guns”.
The Housing bubble that forced people from their land was part of the plan.
The IMF and World Bank (est. the United Nations in 1945) acquired the Quit Claim Deed on the United States from the Federal Reserve Private bank in 1944 who acquired it from the Bankruptcy of 1933 (Holiday Banking Act) steming from the loan of 1913 – The Federal Reserve act.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
All the peices of the puzzle fit, and I have 90% of the puzzle completed.
Report Post »DenisWTexas
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:00pmPROBIEMSOIVER, your words are spot on. The original idea was that you have a right to live however you want provided you don’t trample the rights of anyone else.
The real crux of the current evil tactics here are that you can twist that idea by saying that rights to affordable health care and equal housing and iPads are God-given rights because it’s “fair.” So NOW we have people telling us that eating that donut means you will more likely have a heart attack and raise MY health care costs, so you are violating my rights unless you eat carrots.
It’s a shameful ploy, but they’re selling it under the guise of fairness and equality. And the sheeple are buying it. God help us all.
Worst part is, if I could just brainwash everyone into understanding their mistake and seeing things my way, I’d be just as guilty as Hitler. Guess we’ll just have to educate and inspire and live as examples.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:16pmNice place to visit, but off the charts left!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:19pm@DenisWTexas
You are correct.
According to law, One must prove without a reasonable doubt that my eating a ho ho violates your Rights. A Plaintiff must have evidence to substantiate the claim.
I would love to see an attorney prove (evidence) that a defendant eating a ho ho violates his client’s Constitutional rights.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:40pm*Would love to see an attorney TRY and prove a right’s violation due to the comical aspect of a such an attempt.
Report Post »Unc68
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:44pmI wonder if anyone has run the numbers on the correlation between childhood obesity and the school lunch program.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:57pm@THX-1138
Spot on. This is exactly the problem we have in America today. It’s the core tenant to the Progressive Movement.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:37pmWell, they don’t call it “The People’s Republic of Massachusetts” for nothing…
One more place I never went and to which I’ll never go…
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:07pmIts called states rights. I think its stupid but if thats what they want in Mass its fine with me. Just like California – they don’t want gay marraige – they have voted it down twice.
Report Post »Oh yeah I forgot a gay judge reversed the peoples vote. Oh well so much for states rights – think I’ll go watch Preppers again.
rckirby
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:24pmWhen, oh when the people wake up and realize that they can and should go to their local school board and make them say ‘no’ to dumb ass states laws? Only when they are willing to ‘secede’ from the State, kick out the unions, quit giving or taking money from them and educating your own kids in your community.
Everyone EXPECTS the government to fix the problems. The people our Founders believed in have abdicated their own power…….just as they were afraid we would.
Reading the ‘5000 Year Leap’ opened my eyes as to why the Founders had a great vision, even if rough around the edges, and we fixed.
(And no, I didn’t write it, nor do I sell it)
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:36pmThe state and experts must know something!!! My dog has only gained 20 lbs. from the “experts” balanced food plan that comes in a bag..and he farts up a terrible storm…vs when I just fed him table scraps…I thought my meal plan was working, but hey, I am not an expert…
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:35pmlol
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:36pmWhy don’t the schools worry whether the kids are getting the right food of knowledge by have the best teachers that teach them the truth in all subjects.
Let the Insurance Companies charge each family by their health weights
Report Post »VTMOM5
Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:56amThat would work if everyone on State Insurance was paying for it….but they don’t, so they have no incentive to stay healthy… :(
If the government really wanted to do something about obesity they would shut down Monsanto…but they won’t because many of them would loose a hefty part of their income!!!!!!!
Report Post »Geminitis
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:34pmFirst it’s lemonade stands, then bake sales, whats next ban cupcakes and donuts? I am sick and tired having the American way of life bent to accommodate politically correct chicken littles. A child is only obese because of bad parenting. Don‘t restrict American’s freedom of choice, but rather educate bad parents.
Report Post »VTMOM5
Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:10amI get so sick of people saying it’s “bad parenting” …it’s not bad parenting, it’s IGNORANT parenting from a bad education due to the Government (and only because they made it a law that all kids HAVE to go to school-yet that was supposed to be a RIGHT as well, yet then they made it mandatory) putting restrictions on what the schools can teach (and feed to the kids) …..if kids grow up eating chicken nuggets, french fries and hamburgers in school they are going to feed their own children that because that’s what they know….and that’s what their kids will get at school. AND, the government has made it impossible these days for most families to have a stay at home parent raising their children…so the kids are in government funded daycare (before primary school) getting fed the same crap from their beginning….
Don‘t sit there and spout bad parenting unless you’re willing to make an effort to educate and support your peers about the dangers behind all these foods..It only becomes a person’s “fault” if they are informed and choose to cont. making the wrong decisions!
We live off the land (raising our own food), homeschool our children and live very un-materialistically so our kids can grow up with the values we want them to have but that’s because those were the values taught to me by my stay-at-home Mom…. People have free agency, and need to make decisions for themselves, but if they are not informed how do you expect them to make decisions that ar
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:33pmNudge, nudge says Cass Sunstein…. Apples and bananas but not the fudge.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 8:08pmJust waiting for the sugar tax……… (the new sin tax) Its coming.
Report Post »I am 59 and I weigh 155lbs, the same as when I was 25. So why should I have to suffer because some kid is a pig fat-a$$? I love bake sales! You know where Obama and crew can shove that apple. If you want thin people create jobs that get people off their fat-a$$ instead of waiting by the mailbox for food stamps. If you burn 3 to 4000 calories a day you can eat all you want.
a_lady_patriot
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:33pmCan you say NUDGE! We know why there is childhood obesity. When we grew up we had whole milk, white bread and cupcakes! We were also outside playing everyday – and we had chores and helped around the house. Maybe we need more of that?
Report Post »Can’t get out of this state fast enough!
The-Monk
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:15pmI did and at the same time you did……
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:32pmThis is the type of stupid government that needs handled every day! Keep fighting and keep having bake sales! Defy stupid!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 5:34pmIn an effort to better control the nutritional intake of their assets … err serfs, Massachusetts lords … errr lawmakers, have approved a ban on school bake sales.
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:30pmNanny state at its best!!! Now state residents, we know whats best for you…cookies and treats will only give you tummy aches and bad teeth!! Listen to your nanna!!!! Those food are not even fit for the homeless and hungry…feel the shame!!!!
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:35pmThe people of MA elect these people over and over again. If they did not want this – they should not elect them.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:38pm“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,” Fargo said….
Seriously?? That isn’t your concern or your job. And the other one that said they aren’t trying to regulate you, just have you do things in a different way really expects people who can THINK to digest that and take it to the bank?? Unbelievable.
Report Post »MarkZarra
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:29pmYou’ve gotta laugh at these Libturds.
Report Post »Once again Big Government ( Fed and/or State) thinks it knows what’s best for us dummies. I would just ignore them. Continue to hold bake sales, candy drives, etc. When some pencil pushing jackass from the state comes, just tell them “F- off” and bounce a donut off their empty head.
The-Monk
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:28pmMaybe they are afraid of this event (below) that was put on after raising money from bake sales;
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shariah-prom-mich-school-holds-all-girls-dance-to-accomodate-students-islamic-beliefs/?corder=desc
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:34pmForgot to add the (end sarcasm).
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:20pmthey’d probably grant an exception for the Moooslims…love those goat hair cookies.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:27pmMassachusetts citizens, wake the hell up. Rememeber the Boston Tea Party!!!! Remember the Ride of Paul Revere. Remember Bunker Hill.
WTF is going on in your state?
Report Post »basenjilover
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 6:12pmBarney Frank is one example of what is wrong in Massachusetts!!!!!!!
Report Post »mr166
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:26pmI have to admit, my geography is bad, I did not know that Massachusetts was a suburb of California.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:26pmLiberals are so busy hating and fighting everything around them they have lost the ability to be human…I suppose that explains their fondness for partial birth abortions. This is just plain mentally handicapped stuff.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:25pm1 more step in the Government taking control of American lives! GTFO Big Brother!! Leave our lemon aid stands alone and our bake sales. If I want a piece of home made apple pie then I will eat one!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:23pmWell, –WE are what WE eat !
And WE are a country of laws.
Just think, in no time MA folks will be transformed into a healthy-community
;^> full of walking & talking excrements.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:23pmOK… we know… the State Motto is: STUPID!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:22pmWhat’s next, no funnel cake at the county fair? Absoluteley disgusted with this admin!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:22pmHumm.. and then there is this that they are allowing… .you will be shocked
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto
here’s the video..10 short clips..well worth the watch
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGddgHRQyg
spirited
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 7:48pm@ASHES : Thanks –gulp!
>(head bang, head bang)…. sigh.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:21pmThese people are trying in every thing big and small to destroy the American way of life. Tell them to go to hell. Mind their own business then do what you want.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:28pmIsen’t that special, the government wants to make you be good, Maybe they should try to do that with criminals, there not doing to well in that department with their resort confinements.
Report Post »jens63
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:19pm“If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,”
Report Post »ARGH>>>>>>>>>>
Locked
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:18pmFoolish move, in my opinion. Bake sales were definitely a good revenue source when I attended high school years and years ago. Yes, there are other ways (car washes, working at events like the town fair, craft fairs, 50-50 raffles during school sport events), but bake sales are a great way to make money and should not have been barred.
Report Post »DogTags
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:17pmInstead of a defiant Tea Party, what Boston needs now is a defiant Bake Sale.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:17pmThe nanny state strikes again!
Report Post »Sergei
Posted on May 7, 2012 at 4:16pmthis crap has to stop
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