Current Connection 1.1
CBS New's reporter Jan Crawford in his news report, "Michelle Obama-touted federal healthy lunch program leaves bad taste in some school districts mouths." talks about how the change in food can be bad for the schools.
Schools around the world have been changing their lunch room food and the kids are not liking it. The students refuse to eat the food they are provided because they say "it taste like vomit." Even though it is supposed to be healthy, it doesn't mean they are going to eat it. Some of the foods that are healthy do not taste that well at all and the school administration thinks we are going to eat it, but truth is we do not eat half of the food they give us.
"About 100,000 schools have signed up for the program." I agree with this program, but they need to gradually get into it. If they just randomly change all the food the students will defiantly not eat it. The main reason is because they will not have many choices to choose from.
"The healthy lunches went over like a plate of cold leftovers." Most kids today do not care if they eat healthy or not and that is the problem. Majority of kids are getting obese and that is really not healthy. The program Michelle is trying to get started would work if the food was reasonable. I have had my own experience of this lunch room food and it was awful. Most of the food gets wasted because it just gets thrown away. That means the school loses money and that could cause a big fuss with the school administration. What is the point in providing food for the students if they are just going to throw it away?
David Freedman states, "Any time we try to get people to push or force them into it, we can expect probably the majority of people won't want to take the leap." He is proving that people will do what they want anytime they want and not listen to anyone else even if it will help them. Obesity is awful in the world today and that's why Michelle is trying to get this program going. If we get more fruits and vegetables in the lunch room, it will start to make this generation more healthy. Or at least make the food taste better so the kids will eat it.
This program is a great way start in getting this generation more healthy. The people today mainly eat fast food and that is way to fattening. So if they get at least one healthy meal in, that will help them out big time. We need to make our generation better and I for one agree this is a great start.
