Cafeteria Cams Track Students' Calorie Consumption at School

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School lunches have been getting a lot of attention, especially since President Obama signed a $4.5-billion bill last December to improve the quality of students' meals. In Los Angeles, the schools superintendent announced this week he was considering a ban on sugary chocolate milk, while in San Antonio, health researchers installed cameras in lunch rooms to monitor what kids were eating.

The San Antonio program, made possible by a $2 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, involves placing cameras in cafeteria lines and in the trash area in order to document what kids buy for lunch and how much of it they consume.

The childhood obesity "crisis" is no more a crisis than the discredited global warming scam. Both are designed to increase government power over individuals and to funnel cash to the parasites who keep these tyrants in power. The warming fraud is now dying a slow and painful death but this one is just gaining speed within the government schools and is part of an overall strategy to usurp parental rights and responsibilities in order to create uneducated, but well indoctrinated and malleable servants of the state.

What better way to get kids used to their private, individual choices being scrutinized by unelected hacks than to do it in the elementary school cafeteria line. This assault on liberty is almost entirely based on the simplistic and misleading Body Mass Index that was adopted by government to measure obesity in the 80's. But the BMI, which has also been discredited as misleading at best, as it compares only height to weight and makes no allowances for differing growth patterns in children, nor does differentiate between muscle and fat. According to the BMI, Donovan McNabb, Reggie Bush and Tom Brady are all obese. And they will be counted as such in the governments plans to record all of our BMI's as part of Obamacare . Imagine how many other things the government will claim the need to monitor and control when they can declare the whole country as too fat for freedom.

L.A. Wants to Ban Fast Food Restaurants

The incrementalism of the lifestyle fascists (see smoking) aims at an easy target in never ending quest to politicize all private behavior and destroy individualism:

LOS ANGELES - In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food
is the easiest cuisine to find — and that’s a problem for elected officials who
see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.
The City Council
was meeting to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a
swath of the city where a proliferation of such eateries goes hand-in-hand with
obesity...

Oh Yeah? Then what about this guy?

A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every
meal at McDonald's.
Not Big Macs, french fries or chocolate shakes. Mostly
salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.

The busybodies and little dictators ignore the LAW of supply and demand as always:

The California Restaurant Association says the moratorium, which could be
extended up to two years, is misguided.
Fast food “is the only industry that
wants to be in South LA,” said association spokesman Andrew Casana. “Sit-down
restaurants don’t want to go in. If they did, they’d be there. This moratorium
isn’t going to help them relocate.”

And they won't. Not only is there no demand, the crime associated with these neighborhoods that sit down restaurants are far more vulnerable to, makes the investment not worth the risk.
What restaurants to they expect to flock there anyway? Since when is discouraging business from locating to an impoverished a good idea? What is acceptable to these pests? Obviously the people in South LA aren't interested in the diet government bullies want to foist on them. They probably should eat better foods. They should also learn some personal responsibility.

Fat People Have Larger Carbon Footprint

First it was smokers, then tran-fats and light bulbs etc., etc. Now all you lardbutts are in the crosshairs of the lifestyle tyrants. And they expect us to give away more liberty based on lies they know the ignorant public will swallow.

"What's not a joke is that there is a finite amount of food in the world, and it
is growing
scarce. Recent food riots Haiti, Sudan, Yemen, Mexico, Egypt, and other
countries are a stark reminder that many people do not have enough to eat."

Nonsense. Look at this fool's examples. Everyone one of those countries is dysfunctional and corrupt. Crop yields in free countries with private property rights have increased exponentially over the years. There is plenty of arable land in the world that could feed everyone many times over were it not for dictators and tyrants subjugating their citizens into a subsistence
existence. Does the fact that billions of people still farm with Ox driven plows and other ancient techniques enter into the pea-brains of the hysterics?

Of course not. Or they willfully ignore it because it would contradict their Luddite agenda.

Government Not Agressive Enough in Regulating Your Diet

From WAPO:

"The problem at first was that the problem was ignored: For almost two decades,
young people in the United States got fatter and fatter -- ate more, sat more --
and nobody seemed to notice. Not parents or schools, not medical groups or the
government.
But since the alarm was finally sounded in the late 1990s, the
problem has been the country's reaction: a fragmented, inchoate response that
critics say has suffered particularly from inadequate direction and dollars at
the federal level...Federal officials defend their record, saying they have worked "resolutely and steadily" in the past eight years to combat obesity. They calculate that the Department of Health and Human Services has spent $4.5 billion on prevention, treatment and research since fiscal 2003"

Understand that the food police believe you are too stupid to decide what to eat and that you should be forced by your government mommy to obey.