School lunches

OK, not my usual sort of topic, especially since I don't have kids myself, but I do have school-aged relatives.  I knew that there was a push on to put more "healthy" foods into school lunches, to try and combat the growth of childhood obesity... but I never knew that they were trying to calorie-restrict students, especially to the point where students would collaborate to complain publicly about it (link).

That in itself would be bad enough... but then I think about the kids who get reduced/free school lunches, some of whom don't get a reliable meal elsewhere.  Then there's the talking heads... I caught "the professionals" on the Today show talking about this earlier today, saying how this is supposedly a good thing, that the kids should only be eating until they're "satisfied", not "full" (which obviously isn't happening), and then one of them started going on about how this was a "shared sacrifice" issue... can't find a link to their segment online, unfortunately, but it's been enough to stick in my mind all day, hence this post.

Note to the "food crusaders" out there... if you want to try and push healthier options, more power to you.  As soon as you start harming one group of children, in the name of helping another group, you've gone too far.  Now, I'll just leave this here...