The program is an effort to help fight childhood obesity and to have young students make better food choices.

Meanwhile, nannies everywhere decry dangerous and unfair sports like tag, dodgeball, etc. Kids are not fat because of soda, kids are fat because they can’t go outside and be kids anymore.

By the way, if you have to restrict access to something to prevent people from consuming it, you are not helping them make better food choices. You are making the choice for them.

I do not want the government tell me what I can eat, nor how I feed my kids.

The program regulations prohibit the sale of certain categories of foods of minimal nutritional value in the food service area during the breakfast and lunch periods. These categories (which include carbonated beverages and certain candies) are so designated because they do not provide at least 5 percent of the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for any one of several key nutrients. For a complete discussion of the categories of foods of minimal nutritional value, including the criteria for making this designation, click here.

Federal regulations do not prohibit the sale of foods of minimal nutritional value elsewhere on the school grounds. However, States and local schools have the authority to do so, and many have adopted such restrictions.

Paul-Cincy on May 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM

Who was the idiot that created a standard of “5% of the Reference Daily Intake” for nutrients, then applied it to beverages? You’d be hard pressed to find any beverages that meet that standard other than fruit juices. (News flash: not all people like to drink juices.) Certainly tea and coffee would not meet that standard. That same standard would also exclude water, since it provides no nutrients whatsoever.

So, you have a student who’s big into sports and exercise, but enjoys a Coke with his lunch. If he buys the Coke before lunch, he’s okay. But if his schedule changes and he starts getting out of PE too late to get his Coke until after lunch, then the school is in violation of the law.

Yep. Makes perfect sense.

Need to have a SLC Soda Party? Dump a bunch of cans into the lake?

fossten on May 19, 2012 at 6:52 PM

It certainly couldn’t do any more harm to that lake.

seven on May 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM

No this was not from the Mormons. It was a FEDERAL rule that was broken. As much as the LDS Church likes to think it runs things it does not run the federal government.

LL

So funny, the Mormons were into these bans as a part of their religion.

So, what are they going to do when the kids leave school to go to a convenience store to buy a soda there instead?

Good grief.

upinak on May 19, 2012 at 9:58 AM

Electric fence.

….

I mean, the Left swears up and down that it will never work to keep people out.

Didn’t say nothin’ about keeping people in.

School Meals
Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value

The following is taken from Appendix B of 7 CFR Part 210.
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Water Ices–As defined by 21 CFR 135.160 Food and Drug Administration Regulations except that water ices which contain fruit or fruit juices are not included in this definition.

So, I guess water is considered as having minimal nutritional value?

Actual logic: Moving money from an extracurricular area of education to an essential area is sometimes necessary–because the money has to come from somewhere and because the end result still benefits the children. Taking money away from a school entirely because a school sells soda pop at the wrong time of day benefits no educational area and strips away funds most schools desperately need. Conclusion–The reason for the loss of funds and the ultimate destination of those funds are vastly different. A reasonable person can acknowledge the necessary evil of the former while condemning the folly and futility of the latter.

The Box Elder HS was fined $18,000 for their violations.Lady Logician on May 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM

And Davis High was fined a second time for $873.50 by the state Office of Education’s Child Nutrition Program for a May 9 incident as a result of students selling soda out of the school store during the school’s lunch period.
So I believe the answer to my own question above is …yes, the pop na.zis are out there.

Federal regulations do not prohibit the sale of foods of minimal nutritional value elsewhere on the school grounds.

That’s interesting because according to the story, the problem was not that the school in question was selling soda in the lunch area, but that there was a soda machine in the library area that was not getting turned off during the lunch hour. According to what was posted, it seems that the school did nothing wrong.

Nanny statism sucks.

The Box Elder HS was fined $18,000 for their violations.

LL

Lady Logician on May 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM

Isn’t that in Utah too. Why are they picking on Utah??? Damn nonconformists/

I guarantee you, if schools permitted kids to be kids again, the “obesity problem” in schools would drop dramatically.

Flora Duh on May 19, 2012 at 12:07 PM

Amen sister!!!

Paul-Cincy on May 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM

…I think it’s a med thing…must take several…some days maybe forgets 1 or 2 and it doesn’t do it’s job. Doctor T was like that.

novaculus on May 19, 2012 at 11:21 AM

The Box Elder HS was fined $18,000 for their violations.

LL

Now the school is loaded with gang-bangers and teenage baby mommas…but at least there’s no pop machine.

annoyinglittletwerp on May 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM

Informed, healthy, choices. //

novaculus on May 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM

Well said.

Okay, so am I understanding this correctly? The feds give money for school lunch programs to feed the poor students and then they have a say over every aspect of any other food sold? Or is the govt. subsidizing all school lunches?
Don’t know much about it, my kids brown bag it. And just an aside, when the lunch menu comes home it has nutritional information on each day’s meal. I am floored at how unnutritional they are-high calories,high fat. And the govt. is worried about soda?

For a second you actually had me convinced that conservatives hadn’t spent the last 30 years trying to eliminate music and arts from public schools because they “cost too much.”

libfreeordie on May 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM

It’d sure be nice to see some proof of that. You know, a link or something.

Not that we don’t trust your assertion, of course. It’s just that libs/leftists/democRATs are such notorious liars, that…well……..

Pelosi and Krugman must have had something to do with this.

esnap on May 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM

“Economists generally agree that government intervention, including taxation, is justified when the market fails to provide the optimum amount of a good for society’s well-being,” writes Mytton.

Flora Duh on May 19, 2012 at 9:51 AM