How does this country serve worse than dog food to children?

[Anonymous]

Pack your kids lunch. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

They’re feeding the kids food they’ll eat. If you tried giving them the Korean school menu, they’d get way fewer calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would eat all of that.

Yeah, we know you would.

I mean, you would too at a ball game. Nachos and cheese. Cry me a river.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In your videos, all that rice! Do you know what the incidence of diabetes is in Asia? It's 10-19+% in differing populations in Asian countries (11% in the US).

What are you talking about? Do you have a cite?

I have these that show in general countries in Asia with a heavy diet of rice have a lower prevalence of diabetes than the US. China, Korea, and Japan are all lower than us.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.DIAB.ZS

Among Korean adults aged 30 years or older, approximately 6.05 million people, or 16.7% (19.2% in men and 14.3% in women), had diabetes mellitus in 2020 (Table 1). When defined based on FPG alone, the estimated prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 14.5% (16.8% in men and 12.3% in women). The estimated prevalence of diabetes mellitus among adults aged 19 years or older and aged 65 years was 13.9% (15.8% in men and 12.1% in women) and 30.1% (29.8% in men and 30.2% in women), respectively.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9171160/#:~:text=Among%20Korean%20adults%20aged%2030%20years%20or%20older%2C%20approximately%206.05,and%2012.3%25%20in%20women).

Approximately 13.5% of the Japanese population now has either type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance. This high prevalence of type 2 diabetes is associated with a significant economic burden, with diabetes accounting for up to 6% of the total healthcare budget.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19795421/#:~:text=Approximately%2013.5%25%20of%20the%20Japanese,of%20the%20total%20healthcare%20budget.

According to the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in China (2020 Edition), the overall prevalence of diabetes among adults has reached 11.2%, and the number of adults with diabetes is estimated at 141 million (3), with an undiagnosed ratio of 51.7% (2).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151735/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Guidelines%20for,of%2051.7%25%20(2).

[Anonymous]

I thought the food on the American example would look a lot worse. It’s totally unhealthy, but not as disgusting as stuff I’ve seen in cafeterias at MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re feeding the kids food they’ll eat. If you tried giving them the Korean school menu, they’d get way fewer calories.

Because Americans addict their children to garbage trash food right out of the womb. Children literally will eat Japanese, Korean, etc. foods with lots of veggies and protein. They are just forced to develop a far more sophisticated palate earlier in life and are fed a garbage food that’s pretty much all prepackaged junk loaded with salt, sugar, refined carbs, and preservatives since early childhood. In fact, kids from other countries will have a distaste for American foods because of how artificial it tastes and how unhealthy it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the food on the American example would look a lot worse. It’s totally unhealthy, but not as disgusting as stuff I’ve seen in cafeterias at MCPS.

How could the food possibly look worse than that nasty, horribly overcooked frozen broccoli accompanied by a pizza pocket in a plastic wrapper that’s probably loaded with insane amounts of preservatives, salt, and fat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because people hate taxes. No one cares about the poor when they might have to pay a slight % more.

Maybe some of that tax money should be kept here to feed kids instead of giving freebees to illegals or funding unending wars in foreign countries that line defense contractor pockets.

[Anonymous]

Worse than prison food 🤮:

https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/the-worst-school-lunches-caught-on-camera/#17

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the food on the American example would look a lot worse. It’s totally unhealthy, but not as disgusting as stuff I’ve seen in cafeterias at MCPS.

How could the food possibly look worse than that nasty, horribly overcooked frozen broccoli accompanied by a pizza pocket in a plastic wrapper that’s probably loaded with insane amounts of preservatives, salt, and fat?

Believe it or not, I’ve seen far worse.

[Anonymous]

Major problems with our school lunch program:
1) the ridiculous notion that the money for it needs to cover all the operating and staffing costs too vs just the food for kids getting free lunch.

2) the shift away from staffing so that all the food has to be microwaveable rather than actually cooked fresh. My grandma was a lunch lady and they used to actually cook the food in the kitchen way back when.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because people hate taxes. No one cares about the poor when they might have to pay a slight % more.

Maybe some of that tax money should be kept here to feed kids instead of giving freebees to illegals or funding unending wars in foreign countries that line defense contractor pockets.

We know you don't care about kids because your own post advocated against feeding kids here, troll.

School funding and military funding are wholly unrelated.

The school food corporate caterer pockets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because people hate taxes. No one cares about the poor when they might have to pay a slight % more.

^This is stupid. Nourishing meals do not have to cost more. These kids are accustomed to junk food, and if they don't get it in the cafeteria line they'll skip the cafeteria food and head for the vending machines.

Not PP. But what you wrote is stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well...for millenia poor people ate far worse than what we serve in the US in public school. In many countries lunch wasn't a meal - it was two meals a day max.

Should we do better? Sure. But are we worse than what's happened throughout history? No.

Sure. But malnutrition and actual starvation were much more common then too. You’re settling a pretty low bar.

[Anonymous]

I work at an elementary and have spent a lot of time in the lunch room. The schools have to walk a fine line balancing cost, nutrition, and things the kids will actually eat and not just throw away. If it doesn’t look good enough to a kid, they throw it out and all that money is lost, and all the teachers have to suffer hangry kids the rest of the day.

Blame American eating habits, not schools.