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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (13641)3/1/2006 4:36:51 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541475
 
Sounds like the bans are working, and that a few enterprising kids are now making money on fast food, rather than corporate interests raking in the bucks to make our kids fat and unhealthy- what's not to love?

I'd bet the consumption of fast food is down overall- and that's what we're after on campuses. It's not about eliminating it, it's about not having the school cafeteria supply it. If the school supplies it, it's an admission of sponsorship.

If kids wanted to eat dog crap (for example), and businesses were wiling to sell it to them to eat, I wouldn't think the schools should sell it, just because it's out there. Schools provide a limited menu- if kids want to go to Mc Dog Crap after school, or if seniors want to spend their lunch hour there, that's the way it goes, but I don't see why a cafeterial at a school should encourage the consumption of dog crap.

The schools are not commercial zones; that is not their purpose; they are zones for learning, and the learning includes leanring about health- and teaching health includes providing healthy examples. To go back to our Mc Dog Crap- it makes very little sense to teach students about how very bad it is to eat Mc Dog Crap in their lessons in the classroom, and then serve Mc Dog Crap for lunch in the cafeteria. That's what you could call a "mixed message".
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