Move over, Tea Party. A child nutrition bill that would limit school bake sales is meeting opposition at the grassroots level from a new front that shares the Tea Party’s goal of combating government overreach. This coalition, comprised of parents, teachers, and students, answers to the name My Food. My Choice!
The group’s founder, Orit Sklar, plans to fight fire with fire—or maybe that’s fire with oven mitt. Sklar has decreed that the month of December will henceforth be known as National Bake Sale Month. During the month, the brownies and cookies that will banned from school grounds the other 11 months of the year in the event the bill is signed into law will abound.
According to Sklar, the purpose of National Bake Sale Month is
to highlight the absurdity of the law and share how school fundraisers help to provide the essentials our children need especially during tough economic times.
“Parents and local communities,” she notes further, “are outraged at the federal government’s usurpation of power. It represents everything the American people have been rejecting from Washington.”
Opponents of the nutrition bill have expressed concern over the unfunded mandates placed on local communities and taxpayers.
Sklar hopes that participants in the protest will post pictures of their bake sales on the My Food. My Choice! Facebook page or on Twitter by using the handle @MyFoodMyChoice (or hashtag #s3307), and answer the question, “What does your bake sale pay for?”
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Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life...do you remember that piece of advice from Dean Woermer in the movie Animal House? It looks like we Americans are about to realize the whole enchilada, though. I recognize the libertarian viewpoint that resents the government making the choices for us, but it seems a lot of us don't make very good choices on our own, does it? And the stupid choices get passed along from parents to children -- especially choices about what to eat. We DO need education on these issues and the sooner the better!
I agree that the American people need to be educated, but that isn't what the government is proposing. Not that they do that good a job of teaching when they try to. Look at the Food Guide Pyramid. What an utter waste of taxpayer dollars. No one pays attention to it because it's a pointless graphic.
I would just as soon they would butt out of my life either way.
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