Commentary from the liberterrain…
Are pizzas and french fries in school lunch programs a security risk?
When Congress decided to override the Obama Agriculture Department's school lunch standards back in November by keeping pizza and french fries on the menu they were only doing what they always do, the bidding of lobbyists representing food companies, the salt industry and potato growers.
The government dietary dictate was, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, needed to reduce childhood obesity.
People like some conservatives and all libertarians weren't outraged over this, instead reinforcing the point that government has no business telling children what to eat.
Some people, the usual ruling class authoritarians, were outraged. These included the bureaucrats at the USDA, the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, and Nutrition advocate Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, among many other professional social engineers.
An AP article on the issue did not record any comments from First Busybody Michelle Obama, who has little better to do than romp around the world on hundred-thousand-dollar junkets and nag people about what to feed their children.
But unexpected outrage came from a gaggle of retired generals calling themselves Mission: Readiness. Seems they advocate healthier school lunches because "obesity is the leading medical disqualifier for military service."
In short, the fact that kids are too fat to fight is a security risk. How can The World's Greatest Superpower's advanced technological combat forces gallivant around the globe fighting wars of aggression that murder civilians and impose American Exceptionalism on backward little countries with utterly no ability to attack us or defend themselves from us?
"Children are our most valuable natural resource," declared Herbert Hoover.
To the ruling class, children are valuable natural resources like oil, gas, coal, timber, ore, and our tax money.
When the empire builders can't get enough voluntary bodies to stuff into uniforms they'll bring back military conscription. So maybe the best way to keep today's toddlers from growing up to be some future Third Worlder's IED fodder is to start stuffing fattening food down their little throats right now.
Of course, America could just quit fighting needless wars of aggression and start using the military forces for what they're supposed to be used for: national defense.
But then what would fat old balding generals have to sit around and brag to one another about?
Eat your french fries, kiddos!
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