Comments about ‘Is junk-food ban in California schools half-baked?’

Junk food means it has no nutrional value at all and should be eliminated completely. Ban vending machines selling junk food and soda pops that have no health value. These foods are so over processed that all nutrion has been removed therfore the machines vending them should also be removed. Send the kids to the cafeterias provided with a somewhat healthier food for them that still has some nutrition. After visiting the local high school of my children I was appalled at the number and variety of junk being fed to students in the school where they are supposed to be getting an education with poor nutrition habits being developed right in the education system. Funds from machines do not go to the students or education, it is the office cash box for office and teacher amenities.

Cafeteria food is mainly fat, white flour and sugar. Even the fruit is served in heavy syrup. I don't feel that the USDA approved menu is very nutritional(at least in the Jordan school district). I send my kids to school with cold lunch.

Food bans don't work. PERIOD. When will the Food Stasi figure this out? Kids who eat healthful food do so because they were taught to do so by... THEIR PARENTS. We are rapidly marching towards a Communist Nanny State in which the government literally owns every man, woman and child in the country, and dictates our entire lives for us, "for our own good" and "to save the children". Personal responsibility is evidently not an option any more. The era of the black market cupcake looms, and the idiots in California are just hurrying things along.

Bullying school systems and food companies and restaurants into some kook fringe leftist control freak's dreamworld of supposed "health" is not only wrong, it is ineffective, it is overly restrictive, and it is in violation of the law. A competent federal prosecutor could break the likes of Marion Nestle and the Center for Science in the Public Interest under the Racketeer and Influence Corrupt Organisation (RICO) Act.