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The Epic Failure Of Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program – #ThanksMichelle

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Michelle Obama’s “healthy” school lunch program isn’t going over too well. Thanks to social media students are able to share their thoughts on the food they’re being served. The hashtags #ThanksMichelle and #ThanksMichelleObama are big hits, though. Here’s a sampling of the feedback.

My dog threw up today and it looked just like this one:

CNS News has more unhappy tweets, and IBD weighed in.

The $12 billion federal student lunch program, which serves 30.7 million kids, is losing participants fast — more than a million just last year, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The reason: the first lady’s Healthy Hunger-free Kids Act, an act that has accomplished exactly the opposite of what it claimed it would — leaving hungry, angry, disgusted kids and dumpsters full of wasted food.

Kids have taken to Twitter to post photographs of the wretched results of the new federal guidelines that any school participating in the National School Lunch Program must follow to comply with the government-knows-best program for nutrition.

Meager burgers on soggy buns and sorry little skim milk cartons amid otherwise bare lunch trays, mystery meat, tiny little teaspoons of taco meat amid a few straggly cheese shreds on a massive tortilla, and tiny pebble-like chicken nuggets a cat wouldn’t eat are pretty much the result of calorie-limiting, one-size-fits-all, anything-but-buy-local, lunch programs. (Read More)

What’s really sad is the fact that the only schools that can opt out are the ones that can afford to opt out and have the fewest number of low income kids. So as usual, another liberal program is hurting the ones they say they want to help.

But on the bright side, there’s a whole generation of future voters getting a taste (quite literally) of the result of voting Democrat.