Thursday, January 04, 2007

A New Year resolution

A few days ago I caught "Super Size Me" on TV. It's that acclaimed documentary film about eating habits in America. On the heels of that came the wacky report that the government is thinking of categorizing cheese, previously believed to be a dairy product, as a junk food, largely because it's loaded with artery-clogging saturated fat.
That seems kind of extreme from a government that can't see it's way clear to make cigarets illegal.
But after watching Super Size Me (which should be required viewing for every school administrator and board member), I'm convinced that school districts and parents should change the way they feed kids. Especially the school districts. If parents want to slowly kill their kids, I guess that's their business. But why should schools, subsidized by state and federal governments, sell out to the almighty dollar at the cost of kids' health. Pop and candy in vending machines, permitted in exchange for near-bribes from the big corporations that manufacture them, have school districts mortgaging students' future health for payola.
I like a free, nifty scoreboard as much as the next guy, but these tradeoffs are unconscionable.
Let's have some gutsy local school districts show some leadership, set an example for others, and get rid of the the food porn in the schools this year. Whadya think?

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