@schnurrbart wrote:
I don't need to tell it to anyone. Point out where the First Ladies have any authority to change law!! Put up or shut up!!
Eat by her standards or go hungry. Her program. Your choice. Either way your tax dollars are hers.
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First lady Michelle Obama came out swinging on Tuesday against a new House Republican-led attempt to allow some schools to opt out of tougher nutrition standards.
“This is unacceptable,” Obama told a group of school nutritionists gathered at the White House. “It’s unacceptable to me not just as first lady, but also as a mother.”
The first lady accused Republicans of targeting the standards for political gain.
“The last thing we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids’ health,” she said. “Now is not the time to roll back everything we have worked for.”
At one point during a roundtable discussion, Obama asked, “Why are we even having this conversation?”
The first lady has made fighting childhood obesity her signature issue, launching her Let’s Move! initiative to combat it. But the White House argues a new GOP spending bill would erode new nutrition standards the administration put into place.
The Obama-backed 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act requires schools with lunch programs that are federally subsidized under the National School Lunch Program to adhere to new, stricter nutrition guidelines.
Those rules began to go into effect in 2012, and stronger sodium and whole-grain rules are slated in the coming school years.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/207278-first-lady-comes-out-swinging-against-gop-lunch-plans
