Nanny state alert. Apparently parents are not doing a good enough job of teaching their own children how to eat. Rather than considering ones eating habits to be a personal or parental matter, the government now believes it to be a federal government matter. After all .. .any good ruler is going to want to control what, where, when and how you eat ... right? Oh, and it is going to use your tax dollars in the process!
The US Department of Agriculture is giving $2 million of taxpayer money to food behavior scientists. These scientists will use the money to implement marketing tricks to encourage kids to make healthier choices in the cafeteria. According the AP, "Some of the ideas include hiding chocolate milk behind plain milk, putting the salad bar near checkout, placing fruit in pretty baskets and accepting only cash as payment for desserts."
Unbelievable. With an average tax liability of $10,000 per family, this $2 million could have stayed in the pockets of 200 families at that school. The parents of these school children would have $10,000 more in their pockets to save for their child's college education. Instead, the federal government felt it was best to take that money at the point of a gun and give it to food behavior scientists to perform tests on school children in the cafeteria.
I'm just an individual who hopes to inspire but not impose his views on others. I seek not to convince but only hope that my words are written well enough to get others to delve deeper into their own thoughts and ideas. I am sincere in all that I say but never so serious as to not listen to the ideas of others
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