The food fascists have outlawed a time honored way of generating cash for schools:
In California it's still legal to sell cupcakes, cookies and brownies in a bakery ... but not at a school bake sale.They're even making the kids eat spinach! How inhuman can you get? This is what you get for voting Democrats into office: loss of freedoms and nachos.That fundraising slice of Americana - loaded with sugar and fat - has been banned in California schools by government order, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
At Piedmont High School, principal Randall Booker has enforced a zero tolerance policy for what used to be a campus tradition.
"I love the bake sales," he said. "I eat them myself. But there are state laws that we just have to abide by."
To combat the epidemic of childhood obesity, new state nutrition guidelines strictly limit the fat, sugar and total calories of any food sold on campus during school days - even before and after school.
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Nut and other food allergies are increasing at an epidemic rate.
This is true but I'm still stunned by the impact this is having on Halloween treats, birthday parties goodie bags, etc. The makers of Laffy Taffy and Tootsie Roll must be lovin' it.
Isn't it a little odd that allergies to nuts and other foods are increasing at an epidemic rate? I don't doubt it's happening, but there must be some other huge change underlying it that we don't know about. California has always tended to go overboard on this sort of thing (it was cancer-causing French fries a few years ago, then the follow-up study inexplicably found that people who eat more French fries get less cancer). But I certainly can understand protecting kids from allergies.
(it was cancer-causing French fries a few years ago, then the follow-up study inexplicably found that people who eat more French fries get less cancer).
According to Republicans, that would be freedom fries, you communist...
Larry Parker:
Bake sales I have attended now have their baked goods marked with whether there are nuts in them or not. Most folks are aware that there are allergies about and either don't put nuts in the products they bake or mark them when they do. I thought this new law was aimed at trying to reduce childhood obesity.
However I do sympathize with your niece. It is not easy for her.
OOPS! above post at 10:38 Nov. 13 was mine, pagansister.
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